The article suggests that if an increased hour rule were imposed as congress wishes it would drive away new pilot hopefuls. That tells me that most new pilots do not want to fly smokejumpers, night cargo or to instruct.

I can't blame them. I did not want to do that stuff either, but that was the price of entry back then, and most of the time it still was not enough. In any case I think the economy will have more of a say over who gets hired and when.


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