Cadet schemes can work providing sufficient systems and balances are put in place to ensure the required level of experience on the flight deck. LCC's are driven very strongly by cost (hence the name) and it betroves a regulator or a very strong safety oriented management team to ensure these systems and balances are maintained. Cadets direct to RHS of a jet are a serious threat to the operation if not very carefully managed.
AFR447 proved that a couple of cadets in charge while the Captain sleeps is just the hole in the swiss cheese that is needed to kill a few hundred innocent passengers.
FBN reckons cadets are superior because he is one. There are only two pilots I am aware of who think they are superior to other pilots. One is the guy who single-handedly (apparently) saved QF32 and wrote a book and a movie, and the other is FBN.
Last edited by Derfred; 18th Feb 2015 at 13:42.