Dear Mr. Gusset,
That claim is outrageous!
There is no way that you can justify your statement; are you seriously trying to say that a young inexperienced cadet, who is paying for his seat time, with all the experience behind him of a Baker is less prone to accidents than the experienced operator with years of service under his belt? Waterson next? We should be bigging up this occupation & making sure that only the relevant experience is at the Sharpe end of the aircraft. Bring back the days of the 'Raj' I say, where everyone new his place & their experience counted for the job that they did & that amounted to safety conscious travel. I don't want my family flying with a Big Nell at the front who has to be wet nursed &, God forbid in the case of an incident, would be found to be seriously wanting.
We need our regulators to control this P2F outrage so that the fare paying public & we, as professional aviators, stop taking it up the starfish!
