boeingbus2002. You make a fair point that we all have to pass the same tests. Fair enough. But you can never say to what standard a sim test, for instance, was completed. An outstanding pilot with fantastic skills will still get the same stamp as a guy who has had to do a test three times, and even then only just scrapes through.
Where it all falls to pieces is when these guys that have never had a single real life emergency are tested in the air, are they experienced enough to deal with it and not panic and so on?
Mark my words, its only a mater of time until a training captain goes tits up and a 300 hour f/o is confronted with bad weather and an emergency of some sort at the same time. Lets pray that when that day comes it is a switched on type that can still manage to get through it. But if it is one of these 'just scraper throughers'.......