Originally Posted by
Throwitaway
Being short on company specific experience and having never made a PIC decision during a 121 operation... sure, why not?!
Going to be some extremely entertaining scenarios that come out of this, so many employees operating on min experience, not just here but becoming the norm industry wide, let the great experiment begin!
I fear this could be the new norm in the next few years. It’s not specific to PSA, but to all regionals in general. Pretty soon we’ll have new FOs fresh off IOE flying with captains with just 1-2 years of experience being trained by Instructors with only 2-3 years experience. It’s starting to happen already.
As much as I’d like to see all of us get better pay rates, at the least they need to raise instructor pay to keep them here. We need experience in the training departments. Just because you meet the legal requirements doesn’t mean it’s the best idea. I’ve had some new instructors that were good, but experience is valuable. In my opinion this could be more dangerous than pre-1500 hour rule. At least then you still had lots of people with a 5-15 years experience.