Originally Posted by
kylemore
Were these qualifications determined when aviation was a much different field? When someone is listed as having several hundred hours in a 777, well these days that could be as little as 10 round trips LAX-SYD. That's at most 20 chances to take off and land, and with a multi person crew I wouldn't be surprised that someone could hit several hundred hours in a type and only execute a handful of landings/approaches.
That doesn't make any sense.
Every new B777 pilot starts with 0 hours in B777s. Their first hours in the new airplane, at least 50 for a Captain, are flown under the supervision of a check airman flying in the other pilot seat. That final stage of training was in progress on the accident flight.
How do you expect a pilot to build B777 time if he can't fly a B777 until he already had a lot of B777 time?