Originally Posted by
AnotherWriter
I wouldn't think of CFI time as a negative. From talking to my companies line check guys, and our training department both former and current, 1500 hour CFIs usually do just fine.
For what it's worth (with sample size bias, obviously) the only guys to fail out of my regional new hire class were not CFIs. Every instructor made it through.
I’ll chime in here and say it is all over the board as far as getting through training at a regional, my SIM partner was an Army retire who bought a plane flew the 1500 hours in his plane came to a respectable regional (is there one??) with a good training program and failed his PC check. I was sitting next to him and he flew an above average check ride. I don’t think it was a failure but the 80 year old examiner had a quota according to other instructors.
I’m not a believer in the new flight for requirement but I am a believer in the "quality of the flight hours.” A lot of instrument flight is better than 1500 hours of VFR to a long runway.
just my humble opinion