“Then, and only then...will you hope to understand the 'big deal about jets'”
411A would you not concur that the pistons and turboprops of that period also had their foibles and were probably just as demanding in their own ways. I don’t believe that the difficulties in handling older generation jets justifies the requirement of many airlines for jet hours.
If recruiting for an airline with modern jets with glass flightdecks a guy with time on a 2-pilot glass flightdeck turboprop would represent a lower training risk than someone with jet time on an aircraft with a larger crew and older flightdeck.
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