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Old 22nd Jan 2003, 12:49
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Engee73 - one imagines that you mean the sort of highly experienced pilots with 2500 hours total time and / or 2.5 year's airline flying under their belt ?

Wherein to perhaps help make the point.....:

“Twas a dark and stormy night when, the newly the promoted, Captain Billy Whizz was called from standby to do an unexpected sub-charter down to Corfu, as he strode confidently out to the aircraft - resplendent in his shiny-new four bar epaulets – he was looking forwards to doing something different to the normal low-cost route structure. His effo was the also looking forward to it as well, having not long completed an approved course at Oxford, with a total of only 290 hours, she had been lucky to gain a job with this low-cost airline and only last week had completed her line-training, apart from which Billy Whizz was also a bit of a dish ! Their relaxed, some might have said, over-confident demeanour was soon to be severely put to the test.”

Look, in general, it’s all a bit of a no-brainer to everyday flog backwards and forwards on scheduled services to airports with 10000’ of concrete and an ILS at each end. However there have been more than a few so called ‘experienced’ FO’s who – hungry for command - when put in the sim and unexpectedly presented with a scenario such as the above, have not been up to the task when things started going wrong.

There's experience, and there's experience - imho.
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