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Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes
There will always be some inequities in life, but at some point there's no ignoring the finite resources. I agree that number of hours is meaningless, but an insurance company sets many of the rules, and a company can either exhaustively test applicants, costing lots of money, or require arbitrarily high hours and the higher overall quality as compared to 250hr-wonders (that do exist). The cost to benefit is just to great to invest that much into interviews and evaluation. It's similar to that when considering the "breaks" that the 141 universities get. It would be more "fair" to allow for testing that would establish lower mins for 61s, but economically it wouldn't go...I support the 1500hr rule.
As imprecise and unfair a metric as it may be, the 1500 hour pilot population is safer, on average, than the 300 hour pilot population.
In the civilian world some of the worst pilots will weed themselves out between 250 and 1500 hours by violations, incidents, non-survival, and even scaring themselves out of the industry.