Originally Posted by
mpet
Even if the 1500 rule goes away that's not going to do a damn thing to supply more pilots. The 1500 rule went into effect in 2013... the number of kids wanting to get into this profession was dismal long before that. Obviously I'm a huge proponent of the 1500hr rule but I'm just saying... at UND we're already stretched on instructors and that's with tons of people sticking around to 1000. If people were in and out of here any faster there would be literally nobody left to instruct or at least the capacity of students would go way down. That's not just bad for producing more American pilots but that would also put lots of strain on foreign carriers who train here as well.
Because the regionals waited too long to raise compensation for their pilots and now that the retirements are happening, they have put themselves in a corner they will not be able to get out of.
If they raised compensation across the board to attract new people to become pilots, it would take at least 3 years for those new pilots to get through the system.
An interesting quandary for sure.