Originally Posted by
100LL
It’s time to rewrite 135 pilot qualification regulations. The FAA and the media has made it clear they don’t care about “all cargo operators” compared to passenger 135 operations. Set the 135 IFR minimums to 500TT for the cargo guys and watch the numbers apply. They will get at least a couple years or more out of them before 1500 hrs. Just saying.
Sure. Let's take the already ridiculously bull ****-low numbers and dumb them down further, just like the trends with recreational pilots and sport pilots and driver-license medicals. The race to the bottom should continue unabated until dribbling, mewling star struck millennials can't even follow a 2" wide magenta line across the street, let alone to a Wendy's on the next corner.
Why bother putting a semi-qualified pilot with enough training to open the aircraft door in the seat, when we can put a kid who can't tie his shoe laces or recognize an engine failure into the airplane, throw him into IMC with embedded thunderstorms and ice with hail, and launch him out over the busy north east corridor so that when he comes down in a spinning wreck, he can rain upon aunt sally's brownstone apartment with the 300 kids and a dozen endangered canaries, and the urgent blood specimins he's carrying for dying kids can be incinerated in the ensuing fireball. Why not make it 250 hours? 100?
Why not just come out and say it, FAA: it's not about safety, it's about putting entitled buttocks in seats. No need to work that ass off and gain experience like many of us have, when the entitled little ****ant can be rushed through, be given full authority and experience and then off to fly paying passengers in the mighty regionals? Land ho? Hell no, but the bottom's in sight, lo' almighty, the bottom's in sight. Here we come.