Focus Air Second Officer

[Flying Ninja]

Every argument on these boards goes back to this. The fact is that of all the resumes and interviews I have done in the last few months, 60% of the pilots have not done flight instruction or that type of thing. Franlky it has amazed me the number of people that got almost immediately into a right seat of a jet and then got their type rating.

Low timers with a lack of experience are less likely to b!tch and moan about the good ole days. Give the rookies a bone and they'll be estatic. Give an old timer the same bone, well, you better make sure there's a phatty chunk of meat around it.

Management knows what they're doing. They're weeding out those that would cause them problems down the line. What's that line in Braveheart? "If we can't get them out, we'll breed them out."

 

[Draginass]

Low timers with a lack of experience are less likely to b!tch and moan about the good ole days. Give the rookies a bone and they'll be estatic. Give an old timer the same bone, well, you better make sure there's a phatty chunk of meat around it.

Management knows what they're doing. They're weeding out those that would cause them problems down the line. What's that line in Braveheart? "If we can't get them out, we'll breed them out."

That may be true for the first year or so, but new guys don't stay unjaded for long if they're constantly being screwed. When they get the time and experience behind them and become more marketable, they're no different from the "well-shopworn" guys.