"Domestic & regional pilot" I don’t know where did you get that from, probably American or Indian terminology (only) specially when they try to filter applicant out. But its irrelevant when it comes to quality and skills. Cooper I’m not a FO,
A330 man, try again, sorry you didn’t get wright this time
but I can tell you a good pilot is:
1) Knowledge to be taught.
2) Skills to be gained.
3) And improved by experience..
If not the way as above NO GOOD 
. if one is missing it will NEVER work.
i.e. so many good pilot with low time, and so many high experience with poor knowledge & many pulls the SPD BRK several times during descent unnecessarily (skills issue).all are not good (ideal) for A330, B777 or 5* QR,
We don’t wait for something to happened to make a change, that’s not smart and most likely it will be to late.
Oops sorry, almost 4get, there is new thing been introduced recently called CRM used "abused" ( politically) by office staff solely personal, to by-pass, isolate some good pilot form (upgrade, transition) how is judging how.
Load master keep mastering .
bottom line fly safe and talk logic.
Last edited by CI999; 2nd Oct 2010 at 13:39.