Originally Posted by
Icarus2001
So your hypothetical Australian pilot cannot “go to the US and be cut loose in the left seat of 50/70 seat jet at more or less the same level of experience“.
Is that correct?
If you are a 1500 hour pilot, you can choose to stay in Aus and go down that route, with everything that entails. Or, you could go to the US and by the time you reach 2500 hours, upgrade if that's what you want. Both pilots need to get to 2500 hours somehow, which way you go is your choice. But you know this. Never in the 5 years of this thread has anyone ever said you can rock up to the US and go left seat.
Oh, and there's no hypothetical about it. Literally every Aussie at commutair gets their shot at upgrade when they get their 1000 hours.