Thunderbird
I'm not sure what you’re complaining about.
Are you saying that going from flying C-172's in 2000, to command on the 747/400 in nine years (or by your numbers ten years on the pax) is a long time???
Are you saying that if command now stretches out to 11 or 12 years that you, or these guys, now deserve some kind of redress?? That we're to feel sorry for you?
Deep down don't you feel, even a little bit, that this is an incredibly fast upgrade from S/O to command on a wide-body commercial airliner???? Was this really your expectation when you entered aviation?
If so, welcome to the real world!
For goodness sake.....I'm really beginning to feel that some people here have lost the plot!