What are aviation degree students being told?
A320LGW:....“I actually had 160TT when I flew my first passengers in a turboprop.”
Impressive, was it single pilot? Plus had to be IFR if it was in the UK. I didn’t know it was possible get a CPL and IR with only 160 hours.
In Oz, you’d consider yourself very, very lucky to be doing the same VFR in a C206 in the bush.
Impressive, was it single pilot? Plus had to be IFR if it was in the UK. I didn’t know it was possible get a CPL and IR with only 160 hours.
In Oz, you’d consider yourself very, very lucky to be doing the same VFR in a C206 in the bush.
In Oz, you’d consider yourself very, very lucky to be doing the same VFR in a C206 in the bush.
Dr. Dre. & 320LGW....
I live and learn.
So let me get this right, there’s a whole generation of western airline pilots who have never had to fly alone? Incomprehensible to an old fossil like me. That’s progress, I guess.
What worries me is that there is a whole generation of pilots with thousands of mistake free hours. How can you make a mistake to learn from? This is most certainly a good thing in a highly regulated, trained and documented airline environment if you stick to the SOPs.
With the instability in careers of late how do they cope when thrown into a G550 or similar and told to go La Paz for 3 days? Or find themselves flying into strips in Irian Jaya? I ask because this is stuff I could and have drawn from as result of of a mistake riddled career.
Not proud of making mistakes but they have been good learning experiences to extrapolate from.
I live and learn.
So let me get this right, there’s a whole generation of western airline pilots who have never had to fly alone? Incomprehensible to an old fossil like me. That’s progress, I guess.
What worries me is that there is a whole generation of pilots with thousands of mistake free hours. How can you make a mistake to learn from? This is most certainly a good thing in a highly regulated, trained and documented airline environment if you stick to the SOPs.
With the instability in careers of late how do they cope when thrown into a G550 or similar and told to go La Paz for 3 days? Or find themselves flying into strips in Irian Jaya? I ask because this is stuff I could and have drawn from as result of of a mistake riddled career.
Not proud of making mistakes but they have been good learning experiences to extrapolate from.
