Hitmommapilot

Yes, I know, the US isn't Europe, spent a lot of time in Europe. So, what's your point? Structured training programs, military or airline cadet, are bad or good? That "punk kids" with deep pockets should not fly? That 1,500 hours as a CFI flying in VFR Florida are good, or bad, airline candidates because they can hold an ATP?

I happen to propose the best proven way to create safe, disciplined pilots is to put them thru a disciplined training process with high evaluation standards and a cirriculum that provides sold basis for growth. Where airlines use cadet programs (yes, that's Europe), it can be done well. To consider the haphazard program we have, where getting a couple of hundred hours as a CFI and an arbitrary number of hours is considered qualification to fly airliners, all sorts of bad outcomes are possible.

GF