Originally Posted by
lolwut
Obtaining that level has a required baseline skill/ability/motivation/talent that is easily filtered and cannot be bought. Is it a very good moron-filter.
As afterburn said, very well put.
People not wanting the rule to go through, wanting the exceptions and 'tiers' for an aviation degree, a jet course, whatever are furthering the entitlement is already so prevalent with new pilots. Everyone expects to get their wet commercial and go to an airline, then upgrade as soon as they get 1500TT, get a thousand hours as PIC, then go to SWA and love life. It's disgusting.
Instruct a little bit, get a 135 job, earn some pay for a bit, make some decisions, scare yourself, start thinking that airline passengers (who still think they're on Delta, United, etc) deserve something better from their crews.
Of course, the same people who demand exceptions and butchering of the rule are the ones who want more, bigger RJs...they want to fly the CRJ-900 and ERJ-190 because they're mainline airplanes, OMG! Disgusting.