It is no crime to be inexperienced, whatever your definition of inexperience is. And there has been no criticism of an individual for being inexperienced that I know of. The criticism is directed at an airline management that has put people on command courses before they were ready. This as a result of driving away the core of experienced line captains that any airline needs to operate safely and successfully. When the inexperienced command trainees fail (as the previous post makes clear that some do) it is then another 2 base checks and a year before they can be considered for another go. This is not fair on the individual and a waste of valuable training time for the airline.
The results of this exodus of experience are now being seen as inexperienced crews fly older and older aircraft, with more and more ADDs, usually fatigued, and the number of (unnecessary) IFSDs has reached an unprecedented level. The ETOPS limit has been reduced to 120 minutes as a result.
BUT, that is not the (inexperienced) crews fault imho. The fault starts with the last CEO and permeates down to the present 767 DFM.
The previous posters comments about there being
some people left in RBA with more than half a brain are not in dispute. But it is experience that RBA Flight Ops is short of right now and it has driven most of it away through management arrogance and stupidity. The real consequences of such managerial incompetence are only now beginning to surface.
