These debates always go off on bizarre tangents and personal rants for some reason. How did experience and cockpit gradient become part of this thread?
I would be far more concerned at the public targetting of a group charged with a huge legal safety responsibility. Modern airline management seem to think that morale among their pilots is irrelevant, and are quite happy to intimidate and bully them.
Only one thing ever stops that and it is not the IAA or CAA. They just sit idly by until the big disaster and then blame everyone else.
