Quote:".....What they have in training are mostly riff raffs with dodgy hours..........( heard from some disgruntled Canucks that some South African B744 cruise pilots successfully conned KAL.... )..."
Whilst I was there in kimchiland, there were indeed fellas with dodgy credentials who managed to skipped the hoops and landed the so called plum jobs as skippers. The South Africans wee actually ex- B737 skippers who had stints as B744 cruise pilots who somehow had their South African Airways and Aviation authority recognised their cruise hours as P1 hours! KAL admin swallowed that line, hook, and sinker....and presto! we had these blokes made B744 skippers. Some were even made trainers!
Recently Korea has a lot of cases of University professors, lecturers and academia who have counterfeit degrees and qualifications! These KAL pilots fall into the same category...cheats! Probably the South Korean industries are riddled with local and foreign " experts " milking their inept system to the hilt. In view of their inadequacy with spoken and written English, their recruiters are easily ' wowed ' by glib tongued, fast talking conmen who apparently went to great length to weave resumes testifying to super proficiency and competency.