PPrune Fan #1 wrote:
At the 350-hour level, nobody would've hired me as a PIC then, and nobody would now. In fact, to say that a 350-hour pilot could find employment as a PIC in this industry is simply preposterous, Eacott's LSD-induced hallucinating to the contrary. You fellows can dream all you want, but it won't make it so. Bravo 99's mate does not have "good qualifications." He has 350 total hours and sat in an AS-355 while he got his IR. He has done very little that would make me look at his resume twice. Maybe not even once.
Well, you've just shut down the entire Canadian helicopter industry. There are few IFR or multi-crew machines, limited military outflow, and a regulatory restriction against newly licenced pilots from instructing. Yet, we manage to have a flett of a little better than 1000 helicopters in the country. We all hire, mentor, and turn loose 100-hr R22 pilots year after year. We don't put then into SPIFR 430's but nor do we consider them incompetent.
Well spoken John,
Without some of us "older" f*rts giving back to the industry that which we have been lucky enough to get, there will be a dearth of good pilots coming through. I cannot see the advantage of denigrating a low time pilot simply because he or she has less than 1000 hours: some have developing skills which will put them ahead of you or I, given half a chance. None of us is perfect, but it behooves us to help the next generation, not hinder it.
is exactly what we need.
I still hold the position I earlier voiced that B99's friend should be careful in how he goes about pursuing this position or any other, but to say he is unemployable is laughable.