Originally Posted by
Errbus
When you have no trouble attracting pilots over 1500TT due to the market being flooded with pilots, setting the highest minimum experience requirements possible does a lot to reduce your insurance costs. The RAA and airlines sure won't say that pilots with less flight time are less safe, and they're really pushing this "quality" (coming from where?) over quantity thing, but insurance companies sure do care about flight time. Staff your airline with nothing but 250TT right seaters and your insurance costs are going to go through the roof.
One could assume it also helps in training costs to hire more experienced pilots.
But when you no longer can fill classes, that 1500TT doesn't become so important anymore.
You make a valid point but I should have added more to my statement. He's gone a step further in past testimony and claims that waiting for the 1500 hours might make you a less proficient, less safe pilot because you are up in the sky flying around in circles. He's had to turn away pilots with 1500 hours because of the bad piloting habits that have developed since leaving flight school.
Have a look here.
http://www.airlinepilotinfo.com/air-...l-communities/
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