Originally Posted by
boofhead
How would you like to be sitting in the back when he does his first command flight, with a FO who is a product of the current training system and has never flown an airplane with passengers in it before?
When's his first command flight? Five years after he gets hired? His new FO? How many hours of IOE/LOE with a CKA will he have had before he starts flying with regular line Captains? 30 hrs? 50 hrs? 100 hrs?
It's not like they take a new hire, give him his ATP, MEL, and type rating and make him a Captain and send him out with an FO that hasn't flown with a CKA for their first 30-100 hrs.
In the U.S., as long as it's not a new fleet type, one of the pilots has to have 100 hrs in type.