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I don't hire any pilots that don't have significant side project flight hours on their resume.

Does playing Ace Combat count?

What? I won't even set foot in a plane whose pilot hasn't posted their VATSIM [1] Twitch [2] or recordings [3]. How else would I know they can actually fly!?

I have a horrible ear for radio communications, so until I figure out how to learn to parse what I'm listening to one of these days, I can't get into what appears to be a really, really cool sim experience I'd love to play with someday.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Air_Traffic_Simulation...

[2] https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/VATSIM/videos/all

[3] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtO_n5SzuAacXKQYoKQY4...

Out of curiousity, how many pilots do you regularly hire?

Our hiring pipeline sifts through many candidates but so far none have been the 10x pilots our organization requires. We only hire the best.

Between autopilot and remote control, it's not too much of a stretch imagining one guy in an office making sure 10 autopiloted planes do what they are supposed to. Maybe have to make sure none of them take off or land at the same time.

That would be the Air Traffic Controller.

I meant a person replacing all the pilots, not assisting them.

What helped me to find the best of the best is also filtering by youtube comments.

Someone on the internet compared it to code reviews from the software engineering world.

Makes sense.

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