Pilots flying hours....

Your pilot may not be as experienced as you think, take a typical airline pilot with 10.000 hours, that not quite what it seems.  Think about it, 10.000 hours might be less than 2000 flights, most airline pilots actually only fly the plane for about 4 minutes a flight, thats only 8000 minutes flying (about 133 hours) and keep in mind thats in roughly 2 minute segments about 5 hours apart, very very little actuall hands on flying.