Reply #57: You're an idiot

[Hawkowl]

Legacy carriers no longer prefer military pilots because one, there aren't nearly enough and two, have found civilian pilots from regional airlines have vastly more current pertinent experience. Military pilots superior training and excellence? I've flown with many, many military pilots and the vast majority have far less experience than those with a civilian background. They are no more inherently superior or exceedingly excellent than other pilots. There are some very sharp military pilots. I will say that the absolute worst pilots I've flown with have been military pilots.

Have you listened to the CVR of the Buffalo crash? A lot of the "chit chat" was about the current icing conditions and how they didn't know how to deal with it. THAT is a training issue that should have been covered by the airline for that specific type of aircraft.

First, they didn't work for "Continental" they worked for Colgan subcontracting for Continental. You can't "lie" about failing checkrides because airlines are REQUIRED to review all your training records from previous airlines and all your training records on file at the FAA. Hell they still have mine from over 20 years ago. So Colgan knew everything about these two pilots abilities and put them in the cockpit anyway if there was a problem. Both were relatively inexperienced in the type of aircraft. Colgan and Continental management bear a large burden for knowingly short changing the pilots on training and not hiring the most qualified pilots because qualified pilots are expensive.