Originally Posted by
Piltdown Man
Glass jets, wide or narrow body are very easy to fly. Turbo props, are the next easiest, glass ones being the easiest. The most difficult and complicated things to operate are clockwork piston twins with questionable radios, engines, de-icing, handling and performance.
Logic should dictate that you start on the nice shiny jets and graduate up to the piston twin, but it doesn't appear to work that way in real life.
PM
Had a conversation over a decade ago with a then BA 757/767 captain who echoed similar sentiments over a cold beer. Start out on the big "easy" to operate jet with all the aids and redundancy and another crew member or two to assist you, and when you've got 5 or 10 or even 20000hrs under your belt, "progress" up to the piston twin operating single pilot, IFR and in the crud. Having done it the other way around I think he had a point