Cinderella Story - Pilot Shortage

[Colonel]

Low-time pilots all dream of skipping the years of hard work
and jumping to the front of the line and into the right seat
of a Boeing or Airbus with 300TT.

Living the dream, you know?  [b]WINNING[/b]!

My question is:  at 300T have you acquired the requisite
skills and knowledge to

1) Fly SEL day and night, VFR and IFR
2) Fly MEL piston day and night, VFR and IFR
3) Fly twin-turbine day and night, VFR and IFR

How many CB's have you dealt with?
How much icing have you seen?
How many difficult ATC situations have you dealt with?
How many mechanicals have you experienced?

Or are these skills unimportant and irrelevant?

Or, do you think the guy in the left seat should
give you dual while he's flying the airplane by
himself?

From the Colgan 3407 CVR:

[quote]22:11:54.3 HOT-2 no but [b]all these guys are complaining they're saying you know how we were supposed to upgrade by now and they're complaining I'm thinking you know what? I really wouldn't mind going through a a winter in the northeast before I have to upgrade to captain.[/b]
22:12:04.0 HOT-1 no no.
22:12:05.0 HOT-2 [b]I've never seen icing conditions. I've never deiced. I've never seen any-I've never experienced any of that. I don't want to have to experience that and make those kinds of calls. you know I'dve freaked out. I'dve have like seen this much ice and thought oh my gosh we were going to crash[/b].[/quote]

[quote]First officer Shaw was hired in January 2008, and had 2,244 hours, 774 of them in turbine aircraft[/quote]

[ScudRunner-d95]

At 300 hour I didn't know much at all.

I recall a few conversations when I said I couldn't wait to go north and get my hands on a 206. I was always surprised when other pilots said no way they would go up there it was dangerous or something to that effect.

I pitty them now as they missed out on amazing scenery and challenging flying. Honesty it was the best time I've had operating a plane.

Then again I'm glad they didn't come north.  ;)