200 hours of flight experience. Equivalent to 5 weeks.
Maybe they should have given him another couple days before putting the lives of hundreds in his hands.
A few years ago we flew an Emirates A380 that was being piloted by an Aussie.We had seats right near the little stairway that leads to the cockpit so I was able to see the pilot come aboard (we boarded early).
Hearing that he spoke English I smiled and said to him "hey,any chance of me taking the wheel for a little while?" He laughed and said "no...there's a three day course you've gotta take before you can fly one of these".
Your first homework assignment is to get a map and figure out if Indonesia and Ethiopia is the same place. Then look at the dateline on the story posted here, and figure out which of the Boeing failures is being discussed.
The pilots of the Lion air flight had approximately 6000 and 5000 hours of flight time respectively.
US FAA standards have the CO-PILOT having AT LEAST 1500 hours of flight experience with the pilot having many (many) more.....
Perhaps sufficient for an UBER driver, but not a pilot.
True but plane should not be doing this with out of control auto avionics like this so commonly
That so many lives need Chuck Yeager talent at the helm