FireflyBob
like the model of the holes in the cheese lining up to create the accident.
I may have missed the joke but what on earth has holes in a piece of cheese got to do with competent pilots getting commands?
Get real. During WW2, pilots were getting commands on heavy four-engine bombers at 600 hours or less total time. And they were a damned more difficult to land than a modern jet airliner. RAF pilots were involved in night flying raw data with one ADI, a DG and a minimum of other flight instruments. More often than not they hand flew into thunderstorms, were shot at and there was no pressurisation. So lets not discuss 5000 hours as a safe minimum as first officer before a command comes your way. Seniority rules the roost in many airlines, and there is a dog in the manger tendency by some long serving pilots to say I did my time before the mast - now it's your turn, matey..
