Dr. Dre. & 320LGW....
I live and learn.
So let me get this right, there’s a whole generation of western airline pilots who have never had to fly alone? Incomprehensible to an old fossil like me. That’s progress, I guess.
What worries me is that there is a whole generation of pilots with thousands of mistake free hours. How can you make a mistake to learn from? This is most certainly a good thing in a highly regulated, trained and documented airline environment if you stick to the SOPs.
With the instability in careers of late how do they cope when thrown into a G550 or similar and told to go La Paz for 3 days? Or find themselves flying into strips in Irian Jaya? I ask because this is stuff I could and have drawn from as result of of a mistake riddled career.
Not proud of making mistakes but they have been good learning experiences to extrapolate from.