Originally Posted by
capto
1500 hours for EVERYONE!!! I have flown plenty with aviation majors, some who believed themselves to be rocket scientists. Many I could not trust with the most basic of tasks, some of these guys could not fly a kite on their own; of course as in everything there are exemptions. some were very very sharp. Also have flown with low time non aviation majors who did very good consistently. We all know that the only reason this was watered down was because of lobbyist paid for by these universities to favor a few who in many cases are not more qualified than a monkey. However they are going to need all the help they can get to live off a 25,000 yr salary after their parents paid over 100,000 to get them there shinny jet syndrome will fade away very quickly.
-1500 hrs for EVERYONE or 1000 for ALL!
-only exemption I agree with is that for military aviators
Yeah, I don't blame you for feeling that way. As much as I wanted to see higher than 250 hour minimums, I am still pleased with the 1250, 1000, 750 hour considerations. Structured training is important---I have certainly seen that which is not! Shoot, I have seen that which claimed to be, but was not really that structured.
Nonetheless, with the education industry becoming the juggernaut that it is, I was truly afraid the big flight schools would get exempted down to 250. No matter how good the instructor, school, syllabus, training environment, and so on, there will be lessons not learned, lessons forgotten, etc. The actual flight experience fine tunes the education, matures and humbles the pilot.