And that's exactly what you don't understand. The more TIME you spend exposing your self the MORE aviation experience you gain. 1500 is a larger number than 300. Even if you never get out of the traffic pattern I can guarantee you he has seen more and been exposed to more than the 300 hour guy
More like something you're trying to say that's already understood.
What you're missing is your company wants those butts in that seat and isn't going to pay to train them properly before they dump them on you. And you knew that going in.
As pointed out above, both Colgan pilots were above the magic 1500.
You're going to have inexperienced people flying passengers for a long time into the foreseeable future. It's not something I'm arguing, or even condoning, it's fact. And they're going to look to folks like you to mentor them through it. They'll pass all the sim stuff and make all their call outs and yadda yadda, but they won't know a damned thing for a while.
And there's nothing the light aircraft GA sector can do down lower in the food chain to fix it. Send em up for 1500 hours in something that can't weather fly like an airliner and they're still not going to know what an airplane completely loaded with ice flies like or behaves like. Send em up for 3,000 hours in stuff that isn't capable of flying the line. It won't make much difference. 5,000... It doesn't matter. They're still headed your way eventually with no idea what your jet is capable of.
It's not the 70s and 80s where freight dogs were plying the skies at night moving stuff around in slightly more capable twins than the typical twin trainer building hours and scaring themselves to keep a paycheck and learning about weather. That stuff was dying by the 90s. Internet replaced it, along with upsizing the FedEx and UPS fleets and companies. And the regionals aren't servicing mountain towns here with Twin Otters and Dash-7s anymore either.
Oh sure there's the occasional place like Key Lime that snags a UPS feeder contract in beat down old Metroliners and 414s with every single thing but the six pack and the engines deferred, and also pretends to be a mountain airline with a couple of smurfjets under a charter certificate, but they're by far the exception rather than the rule anymore.
The airlines couldn't stuff enough people through those types of freight outfits to meet their hiring needs if they wanted to. From a strategy point of view they don't really have a plan, so you end up having to teach. That's not going to end anytime soon.
If they were mediocre to awful teachers themselves just to plod through 1500.1 hours to get to sit next to you, they still won't have much real experience once they get there. (Unless they did one of the few aforementioned things that still needs low timers... like I said, you're probably far enough along you'll be shielded from them, but they'll be flying passengers somewhere and someone will be breaking them in.)
@LDJones has shared his experiences with us and he's (from all accounts) a good instructor, and he's had a pretty significant learning curve in the jet. For every Jonesy there's at least one awful instructor who'll be worse but who won't quite wash out.
All I've said is that you'll be (or one of your peers anyway) teaching them. There's really not much way around it. 300 or 1500 hours, they're still not ready to fly a jet full of humans out of MSP in winter.
1500 better than 300? Sure. No argument there. But they won't have seen the equipment capable of flying it, nor the weather you guys see. Nobody at the bottom end of the system can get them that, either. Certainly not putzing around looking at pipeline for leaks.
