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Old 5th Oct 2013, 06:53
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LeadSled
 
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The FAA has already come to the view that hours in the logbook is one way to fix the problem. I think the evidence is clear that MPLs, 250 hour jet pilots with more time in the simulator does not create a more competent pilot, it creates a pilot with a skill set that is suited to normal operations and nothing more. The Inquiry into pilot training also recommended that jet F/O's have a minimum of 1500hours but this was dismissed by Albo and friends.
Lookleft,

Almost 60 years of statistics are against you, very decisively so.

None of the pilots in recent highly publicised loss of control accidents were low hour pilots --- and I hope you are not suggesting that learning stops at the conclusion of an ab nitio training course.
Quite frankly, for civil pilots who have only light GA backgrounds, pre-airline hours have little relevance, except in the area of unlearning bad habits all too common in GA.
Tootle pip!!

PS: Albo and friends: the friends included most of the bigger Australian operators.
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