Is Your Life Worth More Than Airline Profits? (w/Guest Charles Sauer)

[Major Nikon]

2. Geez, there's so much ignorance in this video it's impossible to watch

I didn't make it past the first few seconds.

First of all, it's not the COMMERCIAL rating they are talking about it's the AIRLINE TRANSPORT PILOT rating. So right away anyone with any sense of what is being discussed knows this is nonsense.

Next, the "airlines" already do most of their pilot training on simulators and have for decades. So guess what happens once you get the ATP rating and go to work for the airlines? You train in simulators to get your type rating(s), and you can (and most do) become fully certified in the aircraft without ever even having seen the actual aircraft.

Such is the nature of level D simulators which are incredibly realistic, and the training received in them is SUPERIOR to actual aircraft training because you can do things in a simulator you'd never want to do in an actual aircraft.