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No, no, the standards have not dropped. Why would you suggest that hiring someone with little to zero hours is the same as hiring someone with thousands of hours? Or years of experience?
It's the same with Doctors, lawyers, accountants....experience means nothing. Even sports stars are over rated. I'm sure that team owners could save themselves a bundle if they just followed your logic and hired anyone off the street to catch a ball or pass a puck.
Take someone like yourself....I take it you've never been upside down. So if the first time you're upside down is with a plane load of passengers....no big deal....you'll just do some of that pilot stuff you've read about in a book....