Originally Posted by
SkyHigh
All it takes is 3 to 6 months to make a pilot. In comparison it takes 1600 hours to become licensed to cut someones hair. It is too easy to get the ratings. It is like the flip of a switch and thousands upon thousands of pilots can be cranked out for a crummy profession.
There is no pilot shortage. There is no value in the profession.
Skyhigh
Talked with a regional captain up here in Minneapolis. He stated that the quality of their new hires was so low that training was washing out up to 50% of them. Apparently they haven't been briefed yet on your "flip-of-a-switch" analogy.
Likewise they can't fill their classes by any means, so today you've got a lot of regionals with Captains flying together because they're very short of First Officers. Time to implement SkyHigh's "Automated Airline".