Conflict alert said
surely a 10000 hour pilot who has never experienced a major inflight emergency is no more experienced than a 500 hour pilot with the same emergency??
mate you can't be serious? Spoken like a true wanna bee Pilot.
A 10,000 Pilot has a lot more "head space" available to deal with any emergency thrown at him. They are more able to see the big picture and prioritise their actions without forgetting basic flying skills forgotten in the heat of battle during an emergency when one's mind tends to become easily overloaded or focused on one thing. The experienced Pilot will have a good base of "automatic skills " with which to automatically use.
On the other hand most 500 hr wannabees would be fully occupied to the max just handling a hard day of normal ops let alone a full blown emergency situation and they might just become focused on just one element of the operation.( and that is by no means a slur against them. )
There is no substitute for
experience and training, full bloody stop.