PFT,

All is fair in love and war. The same goes for aviation. What is the best way to get there? Any way you can. We all have different advantages and disadvantages in life. If you don't use everything in your power then you are cheating yourself.

Low time pilots. You know there was a time when even the majors hired pilots in the low hundreds. The FAA says that it is safe and legal to fly as an FO with as little as 190 hours. Perhaps we should argue to change the commercial to a 500 hour minimum?

Our current airline system has become pretty fool proof. Why not hire high school kids to fly them? ILS to ILS in a fully automated button monkey machine is not brain surgery. Just don't look at the flight deck as you board and you wouldn't see the teenagers in the front seat.

SkyHigh