Spinnerhead - do you expect your post to be taken seriously? You can identify pilots as cadets because they aren't good on the radio?
There may be many valid arguments against cadet programs in regional airlines but I haven’t seen any here. Surely we are beyond infantile postings about safety. Cadets have been employed and have operated successfully, safely and professionally in many regional airlines in Oz (and surrounds) for many years.
To see how irrelevant the safety argument is just flick through your volume of "RPT accidents in Australia caused by Cadets". It's a short book. Fair enough, just turn to "RPT Accidents in the USA/Europe caused by Cadets". That's a short book too. Just to round off try Macarthur Job's books and read through some accidents where the crews had a combined 25,000+ hours between them. That can't be right though could it? Isn't it all about the size of your log book?
Last edited by bitter balance; 24th October 2003 at 09:02.