It would be nice if someone simply summarized by saying - whats going on is that the AT's of the world have been consistently and systematically lowering "time honoured" standards and requirements" for crew experience - all in the name of the almighty buck...
They are without exception rolling the dice at someone else's expense. This is not just here, it's worldwide (except US who has now regulated the issue).
Re the above phrase from STP, of course they don't; but they
DO slide straight into the RHS at (KA) and after 3 yr at CX.
Just step back 20/25 years and consider the qualifications they required
then for the RHS of a heavy widebody....
It would be nice if everybody agreed what is happening is that external forces (the AT's etc) are in a battle to Dumb Down the experience levels of
ALL flight crew members to a point it's "affordable" for them and the spreadsheet gang and that's just slightly above the pay of a taxi driver.
Experience "costs" and they don't want to pay for it...
I wonder which surgeon they want operating on their kids, the one fresh out of medical school or the older gent/gal with 20 years experience at the private clinic.?
