Originally Posted by
Egg320
Yes I'm glad you understand the situation. By the way I'm a 4100 hour pilot with 3100 twin turbine including A320 rating and King Air and I can't get a job in Europe.
What I love about places like the U.S. And South Africa is they value experience in airlines regardless of type. They appreciate ME time on turboprops, bush flying, charter etc.
Europe is nothing more than a giant P2f scam. I know 20 year olds in A320 with 250 hours total because they did an integrated course with type rating through a school that has a deal with European carriers to train pilots according to their SOP,s but in turn the carriers only hire from those schools.
So if you did not train at Oxford aviation, CTC wings, Jerez in Spain etc you are basically cut out of the job market. In the U.S. The pilots would burn the industry to the ground if that happened to them and I really respect the U.S. Aviation community for that and want to be part of it.
I have been offered a golden opportunity and plan to grab it with both hands and commit my future to US aviation.
If the 1500 hour rule ever gets amended to allow this kind of ridiculousness I could see the US airlines trying to jump all over it.
I don't see it being a complete ban on people building time in a non jet, but just making it a lot harder to break into the industry than it is now. I cold totally see majors being like candidate A has a degree from X $250 pilot mill 5000 hours, 4800 hours in an E 175 and Candidate B only has a degree from University of Y state in engineering and 5000 hours, but only 2500 in a jet, let's hire candidate A!