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Old 17th May 2014, 16:55
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Panda, you do talk nonsense. To claim that hours are the magic bullet to safety issues is incredibly naive, and the insistence that cadets are unsafe is idiotic. I and others have repeatedly said that the majority of the best FOs I have seen are cadets with a couple of years under their belts, and that the "experienced" FOs tend to be worse, especially their airmanship.

It is not hours in a logbook that count, but the aptitude, attitude, quality of training (which is mostly comparable in the EU) and the experience gained by Captains encouraging manual and raw data flying, monitored decision making by FOs and so on. The training department only have hold of FOs for a short time - it's up to captains to bring them up to scratch on the line, and most aren't doing so out of laziness or fear of OFDM. But cadets are not intrinsically unsafe.
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