Originally Posted by
sonicbum
While wishing our colleague a quick recovery and a bright career, I have to disagree with the above, as all those sensations should have been experienced during initial pilot training.
It is ok to put 250 hours guys on the RHS of an airliner IF there is enough "squeezing" during flight training to minimise any kind of unwanted outcome with paying customers onboard.
Anyway, our colleague might be reading us and here nobody is perfect, so again hope he will make it to retirement as a pilot but there are issues that need to be addressed -IMHO- with "modern" flight training.
A Piper or Cessna on a windy, gusty, turbulent day and cross wind landings will always help the confidence
But people can definately go through many hours before encountering something "new" or "interresting"... It's these new and interresting things that makes you learn.