Adolescents fly you to Malta

GingerBob_3

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/26/soaring-to-new-heights---the-26-year-old-easyjet-flight-captain/


Has the world gone mad, or what?


If you saw people of this age driving you on a coach you might not be best pleased - especially a 19 year old!! But is seems it's okay for them to take charge of a multi-million jet and hundreds of passengers (sorry - customers). Quite how someone age 26 has the life experience to be an airline captain is beyond me.

Westin

GingerBob wrote: »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/26/soaring-to-new-heights---the-26-year-old-easyjet-flight-captain/


Has the world gone mad, or what?


If you saw people of this age driving you on a coach you might not be best pleased - especially a 19 year old!! But is seems it's okay for them to take charge of a multi-million jet and hundreds of passengers (sorry - customers). Quite how someone age 26 has the life experience to be an airline captain is beyond me.

A 26 year old is hardly an adolescent!

Were you the same when the first women became commercial pilots?

DigForVictory

At 26 she's almost getting on a bit.

See Lachlan Smart, landed aged 19.

Prince Harry was 29 when he Stopped flying Apaches

And (as of 06-11-2003), I believe the upper age limit for selection as a pilot in the RAF was then currently 23.5.

Worrying though all that youth may be, their reflexes and malleable trainable minds make them ideal stuff to drill in not just the 2 by 4 of how to fly, land etc but also the emergency drills which they have to know but hopefully rarely if ever use.

"Life experience" is more essential for magistrates, not pilots.

duchy

Since when was 26 an adolescent?
What age do you think forces fighter pilots are ?

GingerBob_3

duchy wrote: »

Since when was 26 an adolescent?
What age do you think forces fighter pilots are ?

Irrelevant. They don't have responsibility for hundreds of passengers.

GingerBob_3

duchy wrote: »

Just the people on the ground ?

(Bored with your trolling now it's a bit adolescent)

What, the ones they might fly into - on the ground?

Voyager2002

GingerBob wrote: »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/26/soaring-to-new-heights---the-26-year-old-easyjet-flight-captain/


Has the world gone mad, or what?


If you saw people of this age driving you on a coach you might not be best pleased - especially a 19 year old!! But is seems it's okay for them to take charge of a multi-million jet and hundreds of passengers (sorry - customers). Quite how someone age 26 has the life experience to be an airline captain is beyond me.

On a coach, I would feel safer with a driver of this age than with one of my own age (late 50s). Older drivers think they have seen everything and probably do not make allowances for slowing reflexes and new driver behaviours when mobile phones come into play. And there's always the risk of a heart attack at the wheel...

RHemmings

Is this a case of "Pay to Fly"?

Interesting reading here: https://www.eurocockpit.be/pages/pay-to-fly

shaun_from_Africa

Provided that the aircrew concerned pass all of the required tests and medical checks, why do you think 26 is too young?

I started my career as an aviation engineer at 17 and by the time I was 22 I was fully licenced and carrying out and signing for maintenance on aircraft and there are still many people of this age doing the same today.

pogofish

I suppose the OP might be a bit bothered to know that the minimum age for holding a pilots licence in the UK is seventeen - and IIRC you can start supervised flying from a mere fourteen years of age?

fairy_lights

GingerBob wrote: »

Quite how someone age 26 has the life experience to be an airline captain is beyond me.

Surely life experience is completely irrelevant to someone's ability to fly a plane?
Would you refuse to be treated by a 26 year old doctor?