What about decision making, what about actual experience. CRM classes, come on is it really rocket science, no. I know many guys that worked there way from the local FBO to an airline cockpit, and I can guarantee you I would trust them anyday over some person who had all the right classes in college, and didn't have the common sense to see they were spending 100s of thousands for a 20000 dollar job. No I will take the guy who flight instructed, flew cargo, or seaplanes in Alaska, etc, you know why, because they have had to make thousands of more decisions in real world conditions in small airplanes, not in some simulator In North Dakota. Is 1500 hrs really that much to ask, no, get out and work for it. The only exception I can see is for the military due to the low number of hours some of them fly during there career.