We're at a crossroads as an industry and the way I see it is we have 3 options: first, accept that the landscape has changed and influence what we can, i.e. share our experience with the junior pilots and ensure that our training and checking systems remain robust; second, get angry about it and decide that anyone who joins an airline with less than 10000 hours in a 747 or 5000 hours in an F18 is going to be useless before we even fly with them; third, give up and decide the changing landscape is beyond our sphere of influence and not make any effort to nurture our younger colleagues and simply refer to them collectively as being 'spikey haired'. Personally, I think the first is the best option because I don't see the option of a U turn taking us back to where we came from.
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Options 2 & 3 are not mutually exclusive.
