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Originally Posted by Firebot
The captain had over 8000 hours of flight experience. It wasn't until recently that the hour requirements changed in the US, heck less than a decade, where 200 for a FO would have been fine. You likely flew with a copilot with similar experience multiple times in your life without knowing.
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Let's not pretend that training is the problem here. Training hours was quick to be grasped at, to again try to point the finger at 3rd world regulations, when those types of hours for a pilot were fine in the past in the US and Canada, and fine in Europe
Lufthansa, such a bad airline.  |
There is no way US airlines are hiring pilots with 200 hours of experience, or have done in the past. The problem is, as pointed out by my brother who is a pilot, is that they have very little experience handling an airplane manually. They probably couldn't do a coordinated turn if their life depended on it. The other issue is that yes, the pilot had 8000 hours, but even then you wouldn't likely have that pilot training a newb on first world airlines.