Jetflite, GA is like an apprenticeship. You go, you learn, you earn your experience, enjoy it, then you go to an airline.
And you're right. Those of us who have gone through GA and enjoyed it, done the hard yards, are pissed off that all these new grade wankers are going straight to the airlines and aren't going to respect any experience that those of us who have gone through GA, do have.
If this kid doesn't even know what GA is, then that's ignorance just there.
You're right, you don't need to know how to fly a C206 out of a dirt strip in the Top End to fly an airliner, but the real experience you're earning is life experience.
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