Unfortunately Cerberus,
your supposed stats have just proven, at least according to your interpretation, that
transition upgrades in Emirates would be just far to
risky as thats where the risk is weighted (60%).
And what a spin, so what if 50 % of Commanders had more than 12000 hours then obviously the other 50% had less than 12000 hours that means in 100% of accidents there was a commander....meaningless but good try.
I'd say based on your logic that there was probably less than 1% of pilots with more than 20,000 hours involved in accidents therefore Emirates should only employ pilots with more than 20,000 hours.
Non-specific, selective, generic, limited, out of context statistics are, well, an insult to your notable intelligence.
Besides, it can't be that much cheaper to hire DECs. Their monthly starting salary is significantly higher than a 1st year upgrade's amounting to tens of 1000s of Dhs in the first year alone that the DEC is costing over an upgrade. Emirates has its own training infrastructure with no third party costs. The new F/O has a lower cost base than the upgade F/O. Non revenue time of the upgrader is well less than a month etc etc.........
................... its not all black and white and there is always a lot more to it than we can figure on the surface.
Why are some F/Os and Skippers so paranoid about everything? Lack of experience I guess!
