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Old 9th Sep 2011, 20:01
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PW127-B
 
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Hi,
The real enemy here is not the experience, but the company, that have SOP's so restrictive and punishing that encourages pilots not to hand fly the aircraft, but obviously if something goes wrong be it an automation fault or a pilot fault it will be punished hard.
The SOP for the aircraft that fly recommends to hand fly the aircraft at least once a week, at captains discretion, and I really enjoy that, and I'm gonna miss that for sure when I go up to the Airbus, cause its the complete opposite, don't mess with it just let fly alone policy.
As for the fresh out of flight school topic, I understand that you only acquire experience through flying and the more experience you have the more criteria you get, but being a F/O I think that you need to be given the chance to get experience, in some way you have to start somewhere.
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