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TimetoClimb
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Originally Posted by DarkSideMoon View Post
More like training pipeline issues. Plenty of other regionals still cancelling due to lack of crew.
For this argument to hold water training capacity must have DECREASED over the past several years?
Not exactly. Increased throughput by everybody is meeting constraints of sim availability, especially for the E-175. as well as the loss of regional LCAs and instructors to the majors. But further complicating the issue is that the applicant pool has lost experience. Five years ago, a person with only 25 hrs of ME time and 1500 TT wouldn't have even been remotely competitive. Now they are. And that has forced an expansion of the training footprint and sim sessions at many regionals.