FAA has changed the mins for sightseeing pilots to 500 hours. I have to admit, this irritates me because it's completely inconsistent. There's so little a commercial pilot can do from get from 250 to 500 as it is, and now they can't even do that. I am going for CFI largely because I can't find anything else to do. If sub-500 hour pilots are dangerous why only remove them from sightseeing, why not remove all flying for pay; are they going to be safer now just because they are only flying around with skydivers? And what if the sightseers were to put on parachutes? Ok, just kidding on the last one.