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Old 26th Nov 2010, 12:05
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varigflier
 
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It doesn't matter what type of training students do. As long as it's done in Brasil, things won't change. Students fly 20-30% of their logged hours. I had one guy came up to me and he was taking his commercial checkride with a little over 1000 hours logged. Later he said he only flew about 85 hours. So these students then get their first job flying a King Air or a Seneca as an F/O(what a joke, F/O on a Seneca) and the vicious cycle starts. The top gun captain won't allow the F/O to fly so he'll just talk on the radio. Then he goes to an airline and he'll fly with more top gun captains who won't let him fly and the company has lots of restrictions on F/Os flying. He will only get to fly once he upgrades to captain and by then he won't have enough experience and it shows on a daily basis during the flight. They don't feel confortable flying with hundreds of people in adverse weather, landing on short runways even when it's dry etc. By the time you occupy the left seat of an airliner, flying is the last thing you should worry about.
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