Originally Posted by
Firefighterpilo
Trust me you don’t want them relaxing the requirements. You must be new to aviation. The 1500 hour rule is single handily the reason regional pay has gone up to a semi livable wage. You can’t grade a pilots capabilities without experience and a sub 1500 hour pilot has no real experience to grade upon. Don’t look at it as an arbitrary number but more of an experience requirement to fly paying passengers around the country.
Wrong.
The 1500 hour rule is one reason the wage has increased, but far from the only or even the largest reason.
And yes you can grade pilots based on skill, not just total time. As mentioned above some pilots can have 1500hrs in a 152 but yet that qualifies them to fly a jet?