Originally Posted by
itsnotthatbloodyhard
Sykes, I think you might be being oversensitive about that particular remark and not taking the way it was intended. The fact is that we’ve occasionally seen that being a short haul driver doesn’t necessarily make you a successful long haul pilot, and being a long haul pilot doesn’t guarantee you’ll be a successful short haul pilot. Likewise, being a mainline pilot doesn’t guarantee you’ll be a successful QLink driver - and Keg actually said as much, if you read what he wrote. Taken in that context, playing the Skygod card is something of an overreaction, don’t you think?
I’ll take it a step further. Anyone that thinks because they’re a regional pilot they can/ should be/ must be as good as a mainline pilot has just demonstrated precisely why they’re not. The same applies to any mainline pilot that presumes the reverse. As itsnotthatboodyhard so rightly points out even within mainline we have crew who struggle in the different worlds of the different hauls. Most don’t. Some do. But those who arrogantly presume they’re good enough because they’re in the group? You’re in for a rude shock.