Sodoff - your comment:-
"Regarding the comment 'You must remember there are no pilots in the RAAF that have anywhere near the experience of experienced airline pilots' I fear that you have made a common mistake - confusing number of hours in the log book with experience."
How else is experience measured. Try getting a Captain job without a log book full of hours. I left the RAAF after 10 years of continuous flying duty with about all the qualifications normally available. I was considered an experienced pilot by the RAAF. Looking back now with a more realistic eye I know that that was not the fact. Now 28 years later I am experienced and about to retire.
Have a nice day.