Originally Posted by
halbeir
Primarily to those of you who went longhaul FO with relatively low hours, did you feel it impeded your professional development in some ways?
With 1500h / 2 years of being paid to fly, I can’t help but think I haven’t seen a lot, and restricting myself to 3 or 4 approaches and landings a month in a heavy would slow my progress compared to life on the small bus.
There's more to flying than approaches and landings, and you see and learn more on long haul IMO. It's a big world out there and flying round Europe with its relatively benign weather, good ATC and a well equipped airfield near you at all times isn't very representative of much of it.