Originally Posted by
ryane946
[/b] of their training, we are going to have more boneheads flying in our profession. More and more people are trying to become pilots without college degrees
. Next thing you know there could be high school dropouts flying these planes. Training needs to be tough. If you can pass a tough, respectable training course, we shouldn't care so much about experience. Now if someone is lowering their mins and lowering their standards, we are going to have a problem, and nothing will be done about it until we have a crash that kills people!!!!
If you're implying that pilots without degrees are more dangerous, I'd request that you provide a source. A degree requirement is simply a way to reduce the number of applicants...not a reliable measure of skills. People have been flying all kinds of airplanes for decades without degrees, and there are no storms of metal falling from the skies.
Absent the above requested source, do you have any personal experience backing up your implication?
About disregarding experience in favor of training, I'd like to see a source supporting that, too. Even the best training is only a foundation to build on. The building process is experience. There's more to flying than stick wiggling.