Fred Startz sent me this good addition to my earlier posting:
> ... I'd like to add one more I just remembered. Sometime
> in the past year -- in either Business & Commercial Aviation or Professional
> Pilot magazine -- I read where one airline executive stated that he *now*
> thought former-military *rotary-wing* pilots made the best airline
> initial-hire pilots. It was something about the constant vigilance and
> control touch required in flying helicopters. Too bad. When I got out of the
> service years ago, helicopter pilots without several thousand hours of
> additional fixed-wing time were sneered at by the airlines Why does justice
> take so long in this life <Big Grin - GG>???
> ...
If any of you have more to add, I encourage you to post it to the list.
Based on the replies I received, there seems to be sufficient interest
to warrant it.
Thanks, Fred, and all of you that contributed.
Ken
-- Kenneth H. Funk II Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon, USA funkk_at_engr.orst.edu http://www.engr.orst.edu/~funkk