Originally Posted by
flyguy727
There was a time you gained experience on different airplanes as you gained hours. You would work as CFI for a bit, then go fly cargo for a bit then on to a regional. Now you go from a 172 into a ERJ 175. Without gain any meaningful flying experience. What happens is that now your training program has been affected. Many are overwhelmed by the complexity of the airplane. All that translates to higherase failure rates not higher training cost.
We have that throughout the regionals, not just Mesa. The feeding cargo operations of flying checks for the Federal Reserve is gone. I flew with a guy (having spent his entire time flying and teaching in Arizona) who flew his first “real” approach to minimums in the Ejet.
Extra SIMs is what relates to higher training costs. In the old days, 5 SIMs, a checkride, and a LOFT was standard. Now, 9 SIMs, checkride and a LOFT, with extra SIMs if necessary, is the standard.