Originally Posted by
ackattacker
There is no reason to get personal. They have not "dumbed down" the rules or "lowered the bar" from 1978. It's the same rules. If you took more time to get your instrument ticket, more power to you, I'm sure all that extra training makes you a superior pilot. But it's worth checking your sources before telling people that an IFR ticket *requires* 200 hours. It does not, and it never did.
Who's getting personal?
Or do you write the FAR's?
So 200 was -never- required to get the instrument ticket?
Really?
Then why did I have to get 200 hours before I could get my instrument ticket, and 250 to get my commercial?
I guess my IP and all the other IP's were lying to me.
