Originally Posted by
donkey767
It sure seems that most of the tail strikes occurring in transport category aircraft over the last few years have involved 'low hour' first officers. 🤔
Nope.
Plenty of tailstrikes have happened in this country with experienced pilots at the controls.
Here's two:
https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2008/aair/ao-2008-074/
https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications...aair200403868/
This was more because of the design of the controls of the Airbus and maybe a poor training system than the amount of hours the pilot had before flying a transport category aircraft. This was the PF's first rotation of the jet, how would having thousands of hours in light aircraft have made a pilot invulnerable to overrotation in a fly by wire jet with side sticks that they had never flown before?