"Surprisingly, the 'best trained' in military aviation tend to have the least amount of cockpit time - fighter pilots."
"All excellent points, Schnowzer. The FAA and airlines know most of them, hence military experience is given more weight in the hourly minimums."
Well...
Skills not only have to be initially developed but properly maintained over the long haul since they don't have an infinite shelf life; humans don't function like that…regardless of who they are. If these "skills" aren't maintained, they merely become interesting history, not skills.
How much of that skill set, to which you refer, fostered over ~1,000 hours is appropriate to air carrier equipment vs fighters ? It doesn't take much inappropriate control input that'd just be normal ops in a fighter to tear pieces off a Part 25 airplane.
How effective will these vaunted skills be when Mav and Iceman have been in their boring airline gig for 10+ years…flying straight & level, limited to 30 degree banks and brief periods of 15/20 degrees of pitch ANU for far more than a brief 1,000 hours ?
Perhaps there's an appropriate skill set between banner towing and flying upside-down, getting vertical and pulling 6 Gs that even we mere mortals could learn…and our employing airlines could successfully reinforce through training over the long haul ?
Just a thought...
Last edited by bafanguy; 6th Sep 2016 at 21:36.