Como un Latino viviendo donde hablan ingles y volando con una compania Anglo I do appreciate the points mentioned. As far as selecting "sons of captains" in our experience they have been the best new hires that I've flown with. Generally they understand the culture of the company and have a love for flying which is much different than that of the guys (and gals) who came into flying because it payed better than being a school teacher. The pool is very small here, so somebody who has grown up around airplnes and has "hung out" with Dad and listened to the guys hangar fly most definately has a leg up when it comes to getting hired. By the way we only require 5 "O" levels, no university, otherwise we wouldn't be able to get pilots, (small country again), in spite of not having college boys we do have a fine airline.