Timeline for Does a long time to solo hurt your chances of becoming an airline pilot?
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| Sep 20, 2018 at 23:23 | comment | added | aero plain | A lot of these answers are talking about "it depends on other things" or "maybe the 10 hour student wasnt adept just lucky but the 30 hour student wasn't clumsy but just cautious" which all are 100% potentially true and legitimate concerns, but that's not what the question is asking. He's not asking how much of an advantage 10 hours is to 30 hours (which I agree should be very little especially compared to other factors like if you have 4+ checkrides etc.) he's just asking IF there is an advantage. And if you learnt to solo in 3x as long, that's more often a disadvantage than an advantage. | |
| Sep 20, 2018 at 23:17 | comment | added | aero plain | @alephzero. I 100% agree it could. Just like a higher GPA could mean you chose a cheapskate uni with easy subjects in courses which curved, and got lucky that the grade got curved so most people got A's. Again to answer his question though, in general, all other things being equal, on average, someone learning to solo in literally a third of the time as someone else usually leads me to favour the one who learnt faster.Maybe some % of the time I'm choosing the cheapskate (and the interview/past checkrides etc. should pick this up) but on average its an adv and thats what the question was asking | |
| Sep 20, 2018 at 9:50 | comment | added | alephzero | "a faster learner or just a more focused learner " - Not necessarily. 10 hours might just show you were trying to save money by cutting corners in your training, you chose a cheapskate flying school that would go along with that attitude, and you got lucky enough not to crash. | |
| Sep 20, 2018 at 9:10 | comment | added | Cloud | Problem is, two candidates (or human beings on the planet) are never identical. If they seem that way to you - you missed something. | |
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| Sep 20, 2018 at 0:44 | history | answered | aero plain | CC BY-SA 4.0 |