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Military pilots should be exempt due to their exceptional training and types of high performance a/c flown.
Ya know brown I usually respect your opinion however this one is way off the mark. Yes military pilots recieve incredible top notch training. That is not something many would disagree with. However if you think for example an F-16 driver would mesh as smoothly into the Major airline world easier than a crj-700 captain that has been in and out of the busiest airports in the country day in and day out for years you are crazy.
How would a military guy who has never been to ATL be better than a guy who has been there three thousand times flying under said airlines colors. A guy who has never delt with pissed passengers, a flight attendant, catering, ops, ********************ty rampers, gate changes, ramp changes, Korry 3 arrivals, 3 hour ground stops, 42 people on clearance freqs., never looked at a 121 reg. etc. etc. you get my point
Sure its amazing that a guy can put a bomb in a 3rd story window from FL250 while going mach .9, or go 500kts at 26 feet over mountainous terrain, or find a solitary tank in the middle of the desert to strafe, but this does not automatically make him a better airline candidate. Maybe he is, but maybe he isn't.
Dealing in absolutes is never the right way to go about life.
All the stuff you commented about can easily be covered by briefing the new pilot prior to flying into ATL. What you failed to mention is that the military pilot will know what to do if they get into an inadvertent stick
shaker/pusher, unlike the typical regional pilot (Colgan).
Bottom line is that the typical military pilot is better trained than the typical regional pilot and whatever deficiencies the military guy has in regards to civilian ops can easily be taught to him in ground briefings, unlike the typical regional pilot who has basic deficiencies in airmanship.
Military guys should be exempt.
You are absolutely correct! Flying into CVG at dusk, in the haze, my FO, a former F16 pilot, knew exactly what to do when he got too slow. At stick shaker, he gave me the airplane! I stabilised us and landed. He never even had the airport until we turned final. I have no idea what the typical 'regional FO would have done as none of them ever got so preoccupied with finding the airport that they forgot to fly the airplane. But that was what the fighter jock did. Again, you're right, giving the airplane to the pilot who knows what the F he is doing is the proper course of action.