Originally Posted by
peacekeeper
Good airlines train to a high standard regardless of experience. If your not good enough you don't pass, simple as that. Hours only matter if they were accumulated in an airline with a good safety culture.
I am disappointed with the above 3 posts they reflect a modern disdain for experienced professionals. Regarding the recent incident; we are still awaiting a conclusion from the investigation, so to jump to conclusions such as it was a psychiatric event is entirely unprofessional.
The reason that the public should have information on experience levels is that they have dropped to historically low levels and these levels are alarming. The testing is not fit for purpose as there is almost no failure rate which is a huge culture change from 20 or more years ago. If you were just to teach somebody to pass one of these simulator tests , you could probably have them reach the required level in a week from scratch. That would not make them safe to be left alone in the flight deck of an Airliner.
I look forward to receiving some more abusive replies.