Originally Posted by
Mesabah
Honestly, I do love the fact that the 1500hr rule is raising pay, but it has nothing to do with safety. Higher pay allows you to attract better candidates, and that is what is needed. I have noticed that a pilot's skill is based on the person, and not so much their experience. Although, I'm not discounting that experience is a good thing, but the person must be capable of learning from, and applying that experience.
I've always said on here, pay is what makes an airline safe. The best candidates were hired when the airline had the best contract. There is probably loads of data that backs up that statement.
I couldn't disagree more. Were you a Capt around 2006-2008? Thats when we were scrapping the bottom of the barrel and hiring kids right out of high school with 250 hours or the recent college grads who only had 300 hours. The difference was night and day in how they performed as compared to the traditional 1000-1500 hour CFIs that we had traditionally hired over the years. I'm just curious if you had to fly with that group of low timers as a captain?