Chuck Ellsworth
18th Nov 2006, 02:10
There is an interesting discussion on the Canada thread that I believe could be discussed by those in the flight training industry.
Someone asked about his chances of employment in Canada with 1000 hours flight time mostly single engine charter and there followed some discussion on the skills level or lack thereof with 1000 hours charter flying.
My own personal opinion on this subject is that 1000 hours commercial flying is plenty of time for a good hands and feet pilot and good decision making powers to qualify to fly any aircraft with proper training on type.
This mindset that flying airplanes is some kind of black magic is nonsense, an airplane is just another piece of machinery that with proper training can be mastered by the average man or woman and trying to pretend that it takes superman to fly one is just plain nonsense.
Total time is a poor bench mark of a pilots skills, some are just born naturals and learn fast, some are average and learn at a slower pace and some are hopeless and will never reach a high level of skill, even with all the human factors training, CRM training, PDM and all the other courses these factors remain mostly unchanged.
So even with all these courses a semi moron will not really be changed much, other than having passed the courses. You still have a semi moron.
Anyhow I just thought I would throw this into the sand box and see if anyone has any thoughts on this and where it will lead.
Chuck E.
Someone asked about his chances of employment in Canada with 1000 hours flight time mostly single engine charter and there followed some discussion on the skills level or lack thereof with 1000 hours charter flying.
My own personal opinion on this subject is that 1000 hours commercial flying is plenty of time for a good hands and feet pilot and good decision making powers to qualify to fly any aircraft with proper training on type.
This mindset that flying airplanes is some kind of black magic is nonsense, an airplane is just another piece of machinery that with proper training can be mastered by the average man or woman and trying to pretend that it takes superman to fly one is just plain nonsense.
Total time is a poor bench mark of a pilots skills, some are just born naturals and learn fast, some are average and learn at a slower pace and some are hopeless and will never reach a high level of skill, even with all the human factors training, CRM training, PDM and all the other courses these factors remain mostly unchanged.
So even with all these courses a semi moron will not really be changed much, other than having passed the courses. You still have a semi moron.
Anyhow I just thought I would throw this into the sand box and see if anyone has any thoughts on this and where it will lead.
Chuck E.