"some were damn good pilots" And the rest?
"the safest place" For them or the passengers?
Im not making any huge generalisation at all. As Ive said before fATPLs are well trained as far as the training goes. Its the system that is at fault. Although I have done no basic commercial training I do have some experience of the standard coming out of the schools. I am a TRI.
Im not saying that I was any better than the average with 250hrs in my logbook but I was limited to a BCPL and aerial work such as aerial photography and believe it or not delivering mail in a C206 in the Rockies on a US CPLIRME ticket.
250hrs IS enough when all is going well. When things are rapidly going tits up it `aint. Sorry but that is a basic fact of life! Taking your argument to its logical conclusion would mean putting 2 fATPLs and a total time of 500 hrs into a modern airliner would be ok. And it will be until..................