1000/100 vs. 500/250

[QuasarZ]

Hi all, just curious what your opionions are on this.. Lets say minimums are 500tt and 50 multi but the competitive mins are 1000/100. If someone had 500/250, would the extra 150 multi outweigh the 1000 to be competitive?

 

[saviboy]

numbers mean nothing in my opinion. you see horrible pilots with 3000 hours and good pilots with 800.
Of course I am talking about hand eye coordination, skills, the ability to fly an airplane.
But to make a good decision you need experience. and you get experience when your ass is in the cockpit, prerefably on the left

I have always thought that 1000 hours as a minimum was ridiculous. what you did during those 1000 hours says everything. Did you do S turns in c 152 with only private pilot students, or did you tow banners or maybe you had a lot of instrument students.
I had 75 hours of multi when I got my job. 80% of that was cruise flight, no
MEI instruction, no failures, no maneuvers. Those 75 hours did not mean much IMO.
Airlines need to establish standards and guidelines to select poeple, but what they use are just numbers and they means nothing unless you know what kind of experience was acquired during those hours.

 

[Pattern-Master]

The mimimums mean nothing. There only there to keep the resume stack at controllable levels. Now that the pilot shortage is upon us we will see no mimimum reqiuremnts as far as flight time goes. And vice versa when and if it ends.

 

[igneousy2]

multi time is generally more valuable assuming the multi-time is legit...i.e. MEI. I've heard of 3 pilots logging the same hour...very sketchy. Pilot 1 - sole manipulator, pilot-2 safety pilot, pilot-3 CFII giving instruction to pilot 1.

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