Originally Posted by
UnderOveur
Don't you mean the lobbyists lobbied the FAA rather than Congress? It was the FAA, not Congress, that has granted the exemption.
Also...
Why can't a lawsuit challenge an exemption to a law rather than the law itself? Wouldn't s plantiff simply be saying "I'm OK with the law, but dispute the exemption(s) granted to it?"
Consider...
The MIT grad calls a high-time airline CA to testify in court..."Captain, who would you rather have as your partner in a sim-check...an MIT grad who graduated with a 4.0, an electrical engineering degree, and has 1,200 flt hrs, or a K-state grad who graduated with a 2.5, an aviation degree, and has 1,000 flt hrs."??
"In your PROFESSIONAL and expert opinion, Captain, who is more qualified with these basic credentials to be your First Officer?"
Not trying to head this off topic, but it might be somewhat relative to the degree of how well a student performs at the University.
At Community College of Baltimore County, the one in which I am attending now Part 141, requires a minimum GPA of 3.0 to continue with the program, specifically Flight Training. The Air Traffic Controller Majors are also held up to this GPA standard.
Flight Attendant and Aviation Business degrees at the school can ride the 2.0 if they choose to.
I get what you're saying even if the comparison is a MIT 4.0 Electrical Engineer vs a 3.0 GPA Aviation Management with similar flight hours. From first glance you would choose the MIT student, but I would hope that most Universities, that incorporate an Aviation degree with Flight Training, are not letting their students pass through with sub par work to show for it. I know many Universities have shut down their programs simply because they were failing so many Flight Training students because of the rigid standards. It looks bad on a University in terms of drop out rates.
At least in terms of CCBC, with the classes I've taken with Professor Doug Williams (Director of the Program) and Chris Komsa, they are definitely not letting their students half ass the program. I received a health care degree in Respiratory Therapy which required a maintained minimum 3.4 GPA along with many qualification exams to be passed. The classes were excruciatingly tough. Private Pilot Ground School with Komsa felt just as tough. With him being former Air Force and Airline Pilot, he expects the students to excel.