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Originally Posted by
AuxPumplow
The problem was pilots getting hired at low time with barely any PIC. Even as an instructor, PIC is valuable, let alone what you learn from watching your students making mistakes and learning from them. So you have a pilot get hired at a 121 airline with very little PIC time and the next time they start making PIC decisions again, they have 30-76 passengers' lives on their hands. The building block of ADM was never there to begin with so when it comes to crisis time (whether created by their own errors or from external threats), they are not as well equipped to make good decisions and break the accident chain.
That is the issue that the ATP rule is trying to address. In any case, any hour requirement is arbitrary. The 250 hours for a commercial is just as arbitrary as the 1500 hours. I rather error on the safe side.
The 1500 hr rule isn't necessarily about pic time. Technically it only requires you to have a min of 250 hrs pic.
And you're right. The 1500 hr rule is totally arbitrary. Just Look at how someone from Embry riddle qualifies at 1000 hrs, a community college grad 1250, and military at 750. But some kid at atp flight school needs 1500. Entirely arbitrary to give those graduates an hour exemption.