Sorry guys, a lot of you says that it isn't a great deal to fly a single turbine or a twin turbine. That's right, it's simple!
I can teach any low timer, any PPL Pilot in 1 or 2 weeks to fly the ship manually, to know the FM. But what's impossible in a few weeks?
TO TEACH EXPERIENCE!!!
What is experience? Experience is important and life saving in our job! Experience ist the hope and the chance in changing and challenging situations to react, to valuate and to survive.
like Sir J.Herschel:
"Experience may be acquired in two ways; either, first by noticing facts without any attempt to influence the frequency of their occurrence or to vary the circumstances under which they occur; this is observation; or, secondly, by putting in action causes or agents over which we have control or we have no control, and purposely varying their combinations, and noticing what effects take place; this is experiment"
I could not believe that some of you guys will prefer the "experiment"? I don't valuate to high the flighthours of an applicant. It's important to have the necessary knowledge of the business or the potentiality to learn the job under controlled circumstances.
The experiment to push a low timer in a SPIFR-off shore-international operation is crazy. The suicide begins with the correct weather go-nogo selfmade decision via equipment failure off shore to thousands unpredictable points.
I wouldn't allow a 350h pilot, for example, to fly VFR on a long night trip, self flight and weather prepared, crossing several weather areas in the european winter without an experienced supervision pilot. Have often seen the wide and white eyes of unexperienced pilots at night if all of a sudden the aft position lights could be seen in front of the a/c (reflection in the clouds) and the wiper begins to icing, followed by the pax question: How many time we need to destination? You know i have a real important date!
To avoid (first rule) and inside such situations you need more than manually flight skills.
Haven't seen in the last 20 years to much newbies they could handle the pressure of owner/boss/chief...
Last edited by tecpilot; 14th February 2004 at 05:43.