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Old 12th November 2006 | 22:47
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22clipper
 
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An interesting commodity is intelligence, as defined by PhDs, ATPL passes or what ever yardstick.
In another life I was a TAFE instructor & one year I took a bunch of wide eyed youngsters to the Sydney QANTAS base. One of 'em asked the recruitment officier what he looked for in a prospective wide body pilot. "we like 'em bright", he replied, "but not too bright"!
Weirdest experience of my life was purchasing a little seconf hand Robbie which brought me into contact with a bunch of millionaire private owners displaying a whole different other kind of 'intelligence'.
Personally I'd like to see a CSQ exam, more pilots with a high 'common sense quotient' would do nicely.
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