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Can't remember seeing it in this thread but the drying up of feed to various communities plays into a larger plan to get congressional constituents on board to finance the solution to the crisis of a dwindling supply of cheap pilots.
You are precisely correct: dwindling of cheap pilots. I think there are plenty of pilots who would love to come to work for a wage commensurate with their responsibility. The "glory" of this job alone will leave you hungry. The pilots who have been slogging it out at a regional for a year or two have figured that out.
Secondly, I don't believe there will be too many congressmen willing to face the Colgan 3407 families and tell them they are reducing the ATP requirements because they are inconvenient. I think the new law will be with us for quite some time. My .02
