Originally Posted by
Dracarys
Kindly explain how someone with 1500 hours flying a Cessna becomes a safer airline pilot than someone with 200 hours flying a Cessna? Everyone who flies an airliner knows that it’s not the same as flying a Cessna.
They don't. As long as the initial selection and training of the 200hr pilot is done to a high level, they can achieve airline standards. Some will argue that 1500hrs of light aircraft flying gives you "command experience and decision making abilities", which is invalid because flying a light aircraft isn't like flying an airliner, you're going to be waiting as an FO for a considerable amount of time and picking up your command judgement that way anyway, and there's been hundreds if not thousands of airline captains in Australia who didn't have that "required command experience" when they joined an airline and they're doing just fine.
The real reason they say it is jealousy, some are just jealous that cadets don't have to do the so called "hard yards", that they get into an airline at a younger age generally than they do. This might trigger a lot of people here but that's the truth. Don't think these cadet programs have just popped up in the last couple of years, there have been cadets flying as captains of Australian airliners for over 50 years safely.