and now I need to ask :
Today you have Johnny Rotten who is a com pilot with 5000 hours on various things including 1000 hours in command of a B1900.
Johnny goes and does his ATP test this afternoon. He passes. So is Johnny now a better B1900 driver than yesterday??
Before he tested, is he more dangerous than an ATP with only a coversion to his name?
I can understand the argument for both sides, but you guys a prioritizing the wrong issues. There is no difference between an experieced comm pilot, and an atp pilot, other than a flight test. Semantics, mere semantics. The 1900 is nothing more than a long king air glorified by those who think they are now flying big machines. It is not kind of aircraft that demands pilots of massive skill levels. Average skills will do - as proved in ZS 1900s operated all over the world by relatively low time crews. ATP pilots should have their sights set on bigger things than the 1900.