Should low hour pilots start on Turboprops?
These days there is a great belief within the wannabe community that Airbus or Boeing are the only ways forward at the end of training. While many new pilots long to get on to a medium jet straight away, is this necessarily healthy? Many old school pilots argue that they started on turboprops and that is where they really learnt their trade.
I'm interested to hear peoples thoughts on this, both wannabes and experienced flight deck. I am very lucky to be in the position to either take a job with a very unfriendly loco (guess who!) on the 737 or fly a turboprop for my first job, and suprisingly at the moment I find myself swaying towards the latter. I can't help thinking that the more hands on approach of turboprop flying will only go to make me a better pilot and I will be taking home just as much money on a prop as I would be on a jet after I've shelled out for my TR.
Your thoughts would be appreciated!