Originally Posted by lolwut

I know what you mean regarding all the pilots having 1500 hours. Today it doesn't really make too much difference. But I think with this bill, the 1500 hours really does.

It creates a filter that weeds out those who don't really have the skill and natural ability to be an airline pilot... but are able to buy their way through enough CRJ transition courses to get into an RJ... or tough it out long enough and squeak by that 250 hour mark and get to an airline.

It takes an entirely different kind of person to be able to accumulate 1500 hours. It means that they've successfully instructed, flown commercially in some other manner, and plain worked hard and been successful at what they've attempted. A lot of people who got hired at 250 hours but are on the weaker end of the spectrum, even though they may have thousands now, probably wouldn't have been able to pull off getting to 1500 hours on their own. They would've been weeded out in the process and never ended up in that RJ cockpit. The 1500 hour pilots in the future will probably, overall, be of much higher caliber than the 1500 hour pilots we have flying RJs today.