Originally Posted by
CBreezy
Again, red herring argument. The point isn't that 1500 is some magic number where once you get it, you're automatically a good pilot. It's about what you are doing that 1500 to make yourself a better pilot. You use that 1500 hours to make mistakes, learn how to operate fluently in the NAS and build experience as a PIC.
I couldn't agree more. When you're a commercial pilot, the world is big and your problems are small. When you're an ATP the world is small and your problems can be big and affect many lives. The First Officer needs to be a competent and well versed captain in his/her own right.
Ref: Asiana 214, AF 447, Colgan 3407
If pay/work rules were higher, the highly skilled applicants would be filing through the doors at the regionals in record numbers. The fact is, nobody want's to run up $100,000 in education costs to get a $30k/yr job that works them 21 days a month. Imagine that.