differences between corporate and airline pilots
I wonder how much the difference between attitudes of corporate jet pilots and Airline trained pilots comes more from where our backgrounds are different.
A corporate light jet pilot often comes from the route of flying light twins, often single pilot, often off airways down in the weather. He is used to dealing with situations on the hoof and on his/her own.
Airline trained pilots often progress through training straight into the controlled invironment of the airline where the pilot does not think but has to fly to set rules and procedures.
The light jet pilot again tends to have more hands on experience often from having flown dated equiptment which requires more involvement by the pilot.
Then there is the nature of the two animals/or birds. A light jet like a citation is still a light aircraft with slow takeoff and landing speeds.
A heavy has to be different as you are driving tons of hardware down the runway with tons of power.
So maybe the difference in attitude expressed here says more about where we come from and what we fly.
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