The current system isn't working - or we'd have thousands of new pilots entering General Aviation every year.
The issue is about tearing down barriers (i.e., cost, and governmental bureaucracy) to flying so that the cratering in pilot population stops.
The Pilots Bill of Rights 2, which is also being debated is about restraining FAA overreach. Ask anybody who's been jacked up by the DEA for no reason whatsoever whether we need this bill as well.
ALPA is dead wrong on this issue, shame on them.
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