Originally Posted by
break dancer
Put any jet pilot into a C206 landing in 600 mt and it’ll be a disaster.
Enough training and a monkey can go into space. The question is whether the company is willing to do that and whether the company has experienced FOs willing and able to hold the DEC hand to the varied challenges that a narrow body Captain may not have been exposed to.
But the same could be said for a widebody guy/girl suddenly being dropped flying into warzones, uncontrolled airfields, severly performance limited airfields, visual approaches / very dynamic approaches to short runways etc etc. As they say here; same same but different. Plus nowadays in this part of the world there's a whole generation of pilots that go straight onto a widebody and don't have any other flying experience to fall back onto. That I can see would be a big issue. I get the inertia and management bit but I fail to see that being a big issue if trained properly and the guy/girl has the right qualities. That can be easily assessed in a sim.