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[lowtimedriver]

Flight Careers ran the following advertisement:

"Mesa Air Group hired 92% of our 2005 graduates with less than 300 hours of flight time. In 2006, it could happen to you."

Personally, I don't feel that some one with less than 300 hours should be flying PAX, but that's just my opinion. What's yours?

 

[skybert]

Let mesa put that in their advertising.....

 

[SIG600]

I've got plenty of friends in the left seat at various regionals that consider themselves more as baby sitters than anything else when it comes to these 300 hour wonders. Gear up, flaps up, shut up.

 

[Murdoughnut]

Don't many military pilots have about the same amount of time? I wonder why no one ever complains about that.

 

[Diesel]

because an cessna and a fighter aren't the same.

 

[SCT]

It looks like amunition for lawayers after a crash (god forbid) and the lawsuits start coming..........

 

[Trogdor]

I agree that sometimes I feel like a baby sitter. Honestly it needs to be taken on a case by case basis. I have flown with some of these 300 hour wonder pilots who were horrible and just making everyone in the back sick. I have also flown with some 300 hour guys that were great pilots and knew their stuff. Now there has been those with 1200 hours who don't know east from west as well. You just never know what you are going to get. I guess there needs to be a better interview process, perhaps more indepth simulator evals or something.

 

[dseagrav]

Just yesterday a co-worker was describing his flight in a (Name removed to protect the guilty) regional jet. He said the airplane was nice, clean, new seats, etc etc, he just didn't understand why they were bobbing and weaving like a roller coaster for the descent and landing. The landing was a real crusher and the elderly lady next to him pulled out her puke bag during the descent but didn't use it. His diagnosis was it was a "cheap brazilian airplane and they put more into the looks than the flying."

 

[The_Russian]

We were all 300 hour wonder pilots at one point. Don't you remember?

 

[AirBadger]

Maybe if someone wrote an article and called it the "Deadly Express" it wouldn't be a problem anymore.

 

[Hugh Johnson]

Navy fighter pilots are making their first carrier landings with around 250 hours. Single pilot. Not sure what the Air Force program is.

 

[IP076]

Somebody go find a dead horse.....

I think this topic comes up about once a month around here. Like someone mentioned, there's lots of 300 hour worthless pilots, and there are lots of good ones....the same could be said for 1200 hour pilots, or even 10000 hour pilots....

I think the comparison of fighter to cessna is off, the comparison should be to fighter and RJ. Both are being flown by 300 hour pilots. The fighter most often single pilot.

Its all in the training and selection process...

 

[SuperKooter]

Don't many military pilots have about the same amount of time? I wonder why no one ever complains about that.

People in the Military are smarter and more fit than 90% of the population. An AirForce pilot with 300 hours is 100 times better than an rj pilot with 10000

 

[The_Russian]

People in the Military are smarter and more fit than 90% of the population.

That is absolutely not true.

 

[SkykingC310]

Case-in-point...A friend of mine was hired last month to sit right seat in a CRJ. His totals were 300 hours including 23 multi. Pay = $15/hr.