Originally Posted by
Bellanca
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!
Which is why the FAA must never ever allow these P2F scams to go ahead in the U.S. They also must not reduce the 1500 hour rule because then you will have pilots on 22k a year in mainline with regionals just P2F.
The level of entitlement amongst 19 to 24 year olds is at epic proportions in Europe now. They assume because they are licensed they are entitled to fly the A320/737.
None of them have any life experience or flight experience and would never bother going off to do charter work on Barons, King Air, Caravan to build hours and learn their craft as well as have to make all the decisions.
On top of that European pilots hands on skills are atrocious due to the fact they go from flight school straight to an automated jet. It is nothing short of terrifying.
The AF447 crash, Air Asia and so on we're due to pilots not being able to hand fly a plane.