aa73:
There's a bit more to it big guy. You can take your supply and demand curves and pie charts and flush them down the toilet. I see you are listed as in the USA (there are no Part 135 mins or Part 121 mins over here). A major point of this topic is that the pay to fly schemes are sytematically destroying the industry with every passing hour. You would think an airline would love to interview an experienced pilot. Every airline wants to be safe and experience directly relates to increased safety, right? Nope, the experienced pilot is expensive. Remember that Turkish Air crash at Schipol last year? What do want to bet that the Captain was so frickin' busy making sure that the FO things were being accomplished that he neglected to do one of his routine checklist items? This is wrong. Why not have two "experienced" pilots doing their job? Because it is EXPENSIVE to have two experienced pilots in the cockpit! Airline management could give a rat's ass if the passengers safety is put at risk. You cannot contradict that otherwisae they would have two experienced pilots in the cockpit....get it? Honestly, it is criminal what is going on. And for the people who think this is simply another pilot forum where we bitch about our salaries...please...this is about right vs. wrong on a massive scale.
Agree 100%... the problem does exist in the US and is directly related to low pay corresponding to inexperience. I guess in Europe they put inexperienced pilots in cockpits regardless of pay?