Maggie's Farm

What is it that he's doing that's so special?
30 seconds ahead of his plane is a big passenger jet that weighs 25 or 30 times as much as his Beechcraft and carries 40 times more passengers, 30 seconds behind him is another one, on and on and on, day and night. They are all piloted by well trained competent pilots, most I expect with many more flying hours and experience than this guy. As a fighter pilot, he probably retired with about 3,000 hours as opposed to the guys flying the big jets who retired with about 10,000 hours. In other words, they had more flight time when they left the military than this guy will have when he quits flying. At the end of their commercial careers they will have 25,000 to 30,000 hours.
He's just another one of the 150,000 commercial pilots in American, just a lot less expereinced than many

My point is that he's doing exactly the same thing that millions of other pilots have done at Hartsfield and do every day. But my point about his experience still stands, he's flying a small passenger plane now and doing exactly the same thing as the big boys. I'm sure he's a fine pilot but I'm confused why TNJ thinks he's so hot.

Haha! Well,no, you’re about as far away from what the big boys are doing short of walking. Did you miss the part where I said I’m sure he’s a fine pilot? But there are tens of thousands of fine pilots without even including private pilots like you. But you’ll never be as good as an ATP for the simple reason that you probably fly about 50-100 hours a year in a good year and they fly 1,000 year in and year out. That’s not a swipe at you but experience does matter. Remember the 10,000 hour rule?