Cave,
First of all, I think that mins are mins and you either meet them or you don't and that every airline has the right to set whatever min they want to attract the pilots they are looking for. Having said that, I think it's appropriate to add .2/.3 per flight like you mentioned as well to "equate" gate-to-gate time of the civilian guys with the takeoff-to-landing of the military guys.
For guys like me (and the guy who made your first quote), that could make a difference, because when you're flying fighters and getting your time 1.0 at a time, between making mins or not. I think the first quote guy was an F-18 driver, and a .2/.3 conversion factor might put him over the edge. Otherwise, it could easily take 1 to 1 1/2 years for a fighter pilot to get 200 hours. While I don't know what he was feeling, my interpretation of his 200 hours of cessna flying was his frustration that a fair conversion factor could be the difference in applying for an airline he would like to fly with today, or waiting up to 2 years to get the extra 200 hours.
The second quote seems to be someone who is/has been in a similar situation and just is finding someone like him to bit-ch with. While I have not started my airline career yet (jetBlue training in Feb), I understand that there is a healthy (and maybe not so healthy sometimes) rivalry between civilian and military pilots...bottom line is that if we're on this forum, we're all trying to become or are already part of a pretty cool fraternity. Why some of us continue to try to berate and belittle others is beyond me.
First of all, I think that mins are mins and you either meet them or you don't and that every airline has the right to set whatever min they want to attract the pilots they are looking for. Having said that, I think it's appropriate to add .2/.3 per flight like you mentioned as well to "equate" gate-to-gate time of the civilian guys with the takeoff-to-landing of the military guys.
For guys like me (and the guy who made your first quote), that could make a difference, because when you're flying fighters and getting your time 1.0 at a time, between making mins or not. I think the first quote guy was an F-18 driver, and a .2/.3 conversion factor might put him over the edge. Otherwise, it could easily take 1 to 1 1/2 years for a fighter pilot to get 200 hours. While I don't know what he was feeling, my interpretation of his 200 hours of cessna flying was his frustration that a fair conversion factor could be the difference in applying for an airline he would like to fly with today, or waiting up to 2 years to get the extra 200 hours.
The second quote seems to be someone who is/has been in a similar situation and just is finding someone like him to bit-ch with. While I have not started my airline career yet (jetBlue training in Feb), I understand that there is a healthy (and maybe not so healthy sometimes) rivalry between civilian and military pilots...bottom line is that if we're on this forum, we're all trying to become or are already part of a pretty cool fraternity. Why some of us continue to try to berate and belittle others is beyond me.
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