re: Flawed analysis, failed oversight: How Boeing, FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX

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Ridiculous if true. Likely, 200 hours as a pilot, period, or 200 hours as a co-pilot/captain? Which is it?

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Non western airlines send kids by the thousands to flight schools in the US where they get just enough hours to get their commercial ticket and then go back home and are thrown into the right seat of a plane like 737 MAX. They have no other aviation experience other than their initial training and what their airlines provide them when they are hired. They are essentially robots programmed to push the right button at the right time. Flying without the autopilot is frowned upon and probably a fireable offense at some of these airlines. They have no solid experience base to draw upon if something goes wrong.

There are generations of guys like that in the foriegn airlines and now they are captains. Back in the day these airlines would hire western pilots to be the captains they hire internally for the most part now so both the captain and the FO are underexperienced and undertrained.