Renaissance,
Could you explain this?
Originally Posted by Renaissance
Who is to say that Hobby pilots won't do a better job than the current crop of 'professionals'? Maybe passion will yield better pilots.
There is an increasing concern in the industry that the contrary is true. The foundation of flight skills accrued whilst working up through the ranks; PIC time accumulated during that apprenticeship; are all valuable resources pilots call upon that can't be gained through the current trend of oversupply and self funding type ratings in a desperate attempt to get into an airline.
There are many facets of being a professional flight crew member beyond the handling skills. A commander must be able to have ethics in order to properly exercise his duty of care over the flight crew and cabin crew under his command. Impatience; entitlement; and selfishness are traits far too common to the modern trainee. A gross generalisation, I know.
Finally, how dare you insinuate that those who've walked the hard yards and done their apprenticeship, don't have passion. Throwing a large sum of money at the problem doesn't equate, at least in my eyes, to passion.