Originally Posted by
Raptor090
I think we can agree on one thing, the minimum requirements in Australia for FO positions is a joke and not in touch with reality!
Finally a pilot shortage but let's dumb down the job even more? Make command training simple by eliminating some core skills?
If you can be replaced quickly by an inferior product you will be!
You blokes would be 700K a year if you had to demonstrate the skills of an airline pilot 20+ years ago- you can thank the original dodo's at Virgin Blue pay for a crap rating, pay for a job.
I fly with cadet pilots in Asia who can't fly raw data, can't fly visually or if they do it looks more like an abbreviated ILS and have no rules of thumb for jets or a concept of TLAR ! It's not a lunar moon shot!
However, when something really bad happens, all those folks with their $99 tickets are expecting Captain Sullenberger up front. But it won't be. His skill-set is from yesteryear. But the blame will lay on the pilot with perhaps his very poor training and generational loss of skills.