Not for one minute do any of us assume high hours makes a good pilot. It doesn't. What would you rather take, 3000 hrs of good experience and a solid training background with a young sharp mind, or a 12,000 hr F/O who's worked with multiple different Companies and has never had a command? Fuel Off is correct in that we shouldn't generalise
Harry, i agree. That's why i wrote
A few years back it really took more experience and a more thorough assessment to pass
The problem is that today the assessment is done by the same children of the magenta. Let's see who applies to the advertised new recruitment job.
We, the older farts, might be guilty of only deploring the situation and not applying to such positions. Bu the balancing other (older, more experienced) voices in recruitment, training and fleet are mostly not welcome. We could stir the cheap pot and uproot some imposters. Not welcome ...... btdt