Originally Posted by
cessnapete
https://youtu.be/aB1O8W7gPFc
Who says you need 1500 hours GA flying to be in the RHS of an airliner? These guys had a couple of hundred hours in Cherokee/Chipmunks and an IR and twin Rating in a Baron or Apache. All these cadet pilots are now retired after many years as BA Capts.
Thank you for the video! I was one of the boys who were just applying for the cadetship when the BBC Started the Sunday morning news with the statement that BOAC had told 200 cadets that they would not have jobs for them at the end of their training due to the reduction of pilot demand because of the new Jumbos. I got on the next plane back to Canada, where I had been for the last three years of high school, to join the RCAF. It was fun to see what I would have experienced.