Originally Posted by iahflyr

All the 1500 hour rule did was shift those poverty wages down to CFI and Part 135 level. Instead of getting on with a regional at 500 hours and being done with regional crap first year pay after one year (At maybe 1,000ish hours TT), now you get crap pay from 250-1500 hours, and get marginally ok pay 1st year at a regional (when before you would be at 2nd year pay by then).

They just need to flat out lower the minimum hours to something reasonable, like 750 or 1000 hours. Putting the "structured classroom training" just creates winners (Part 141 schools or aviation universities) and losers (everyone else).

I argue that the 1500 hour rule made everything less safe. In the past when regionals had plenty of applicants, they could pick and choose the best. Now that there is such a shortage of people with 1500 hours, they are forced to hire people who before would have been previously passed up (Multiple training failures, DUI's, lack of systems knowledge, etc...).