Originally Posted by
SonicFlyer
The new rest rules made sense.
The 1500 hour rule was nothing more than a political gift to the unions by Obama.
And in many ways the new 1500 hour rule actually made us less safe since the regionals have been desperate to hire anyone who walked in the door by artificially limiting the supply of FOs.
Versus the regionals being desperate anyways because there would still be a shortage of pilots. And instead of hiring pilots who have been forced to gain experience doing any flying, they send people who have never flown a plane before to a pilot mill who has hand selected favorable DPEs. They then stuff them through training and checkrides whether they are ready or not, all in the name of keeping labor cheap. This is a far worse scenario for a safety.