737 Type Ratings

[ultrarunner]

I ran into a guy the other day who had recently completed the Flight training 737 type rating ...he was a relatively low time commercial pilot who wasnt working within the aviation field....

I'm curious..did he already have a type or meet the requirements for a 100% ride? Or did he have to finish the check in the plane.

If he didn't have a type and he did the check in the plane, he had a fair amount of experience.

 

[Sim Sweat]

edit: re-reading this thread, I feel that I'm coming across as a bit of a pompous arse. That wasn't my intention. I apologize if that's how it reads. And to Sim Sweat, don't mis-read what I have written in this post, I don't feel that I am ready to be a Captain yet, I'm well on my way but I'm not there yet...as for when it's time, that's for me and my chief pilot to decide.

I don't take things personally here, my friend. If I did, I wouldn't last long.

I'm far too lazy to really give a good answer to your questions, which are good ones. I don't disagree at all with the concept that I haven't flown with you and can't judge until I do. Hell, who says I'm qualified to judge then?

But I have my own sense of the type of experience necessary to command a transport-category aircraft and the wisdom that comes from that experience. This is really nothing more than "do I want my family in that airplane" when the fecal matter hits the fan and the crew, or part of it, has a grand total of 500 hours TT, no matter what it consists of.

There is nothing personal in it.