Therefore their bag of experience is a lot smaller than the guy who starts on the big jet with exactly the same amount of luck
Interesting. My first Chief Pilot told me that with so few hours in my first flying job...
You start off with a bucket full of luck and an empty bucket of experience. The trick is to fill up the empty bucket with experience before the bucket full of luck runs out.
So true and quite apt to the conversation we have been having, whatever flying job you are in.
PP