Originally Posted by
kalia960
In addition to landings, pilots in India bank steeply and change height fast.
I was told that this is because they are all former military pilots whose flight training consisted primarily of landing and taking off from aircraft carriers under hypothetical hostile fire.
Where did you get that from? The indian airline industry has grown soo fast in the past few years that they are churning out indian pilots by the dozen from various flight academies worldwide. When we visited the SAS facility (now Oxford) in ARN 5 years ago as part of a do, they had 20 9W pilots in training on the 737NG sims. There is no intentional cowboy style flying going on. Many US pilots also confess to have worked for 'USG' ie the military before joining a commercial airline and I asked them if the military training helps. They all said that when training for commerical flying instructors take extra care to root out any traits they learned in the military that may be detrimental in commercial aviation.