Originally Posted by
Coneydog
Not a chance. It would be political suicide to attempt to repeal that legislation. Not to mention, it is extremely difficult to change a law that is already in place.
No need to repeal the law. In the text of the law, the FAA can make exemptions to get a restricted ATP down to 750 hours. All they have to do is revise the restricted ATP qualifications, for example come up with some advanced jet operations course that totally nixes the need for an aviation degree or military pilot training.
Then regionals can pay to send people tonthis course like they are doing with the ATP CTP training, and then there's a stream of 700 hour pilots...