below standard and would not pass the interviews of today are merely protected by the seniority system.
A flawed argument. If they are that bad they won't pass a command course either.
The argument that a 10,000 pilot shouldn't be placed behind a 250 hour pilot is also flawed. When selecting a pilot for command they have to be qualified with the correct number of hours, so the 10,000 pilot will win by several years, but it would be quite wrong to put a 10,000 new joiner into the seniority list ahead of FOs who are qualified and waiting, meritocracy counts for nothing if we are all, as we are supposed to be, of the required standard. One instructors idea of an 'ace' will be another instructors 'average at best'.
Interesting how these threads continue to emerge from the yet to be promoted!
"Seniority list should be abolished", "Captains should not be called captain", "Captains can't tell me how to fly", "I have to tell captains how to fly" and so it goes, the list must be quite long!
Remember, it is a Pride of Lions, a Flock of Sheep and a Moan of First Officers.
