Originally Posted by
morno
But I’ve flown with F/O’s with both backgrounds, and it’s beyond the SOP’s where the one with more experience will prove their worth. Problem solving, lateral thinking, workload management, just a few things that come with an experienced pilot.
An experienced pilot could also bring bad habits, poor attitudes, change resistance, an unwillingness to adapt to new methods etc. Much easier to sort out a poor attitude early on in a career if the training oversight is thorough enough to identify those weaknesses. Lateral thinking and those other personal traits in a way are natural aspects of personality irrelevant to how much prior experience you have.
While there’s hundreds of highly experienced pilots driving buses, there will be very little need to put low time pilots in the right seat in Australia
I think it's more geared towards recruitment once the industry goes back toward normal. But even then those who've trained at one of the various airline linked academies will be first in line for recruitment. After they've been processed only then will pilots out in the industry be considered.