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Old 19th Aug 2015, 09:49
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I have to ask this question.

What, exactly do you consider "experience"?

Once you have landed in -30C or +50C or max crosswind or at altitude 10 times, what else are you gaining?

The law of diminishing returns is inevitable, and the simple fact is that airline flying is a very very thin script. Very rarely does anything happen off script. So rarely that you might never see it in a career. There is a lot of book learning to be done about what-ifs, but that requires an eidetic memory, not experience.

Handling skills, however, are rarely better than when a cadet has just finished training.....

If you have ever flown anything requiring a bit of skill and capacity, you might realise, as I have, that whilst I am more experienced than my youthful self, I am certainly no longer the better pilot.

There is a reason that militarys don't use old pilots, and it isn't because they can't afford them.
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