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Originally Posted by BobDDuck  Both. Zero to hero have no place in an RJ let alone a 320. Also, Spirit (for what ever reasons) felt they needed to hire female pilots so they went to Riddle and UND and hired a bunch of graduating seniors.
They hired pilots right out of school who had THOUSANDS of hours less than the average in the stack or resumes they had.
AND... out of those newbie pilots they did look at, the vast majority (over 80% for a period of time) were female.
They didn't go for the highest time pilot.
They didn't go for the most qualified pilot.
They didn't go for the most experienced pilot.
They hired to check a box on a form.
THAT doesn't sound very safe to me.
This has been beaten to death before. A military guy probably will have less than 50 hours when he gets in his first jet. BUT... the other 30 guys that were gunning for that seat have already washed out and he's spent 10Xs more time and effort training to get into that seat than his civilian counterparts drooling over their first RJ (or Airbus) at 300 hours. |
Me thinks, from all this discussion, that perhaps, despite its size, maybe an RJ is an aircraft that can easily be flown single pilot except for the obligatory
regulation that places an SIC in the cockpit?
Thought?