Originally Posted by
CAVOK84
My rant was mainly motivated by this type of aviation article, of which I've seen more and more lately. The author typically spouts some obvious fix for a perceived problem, devoid of any diligence or effort, and oftentimes as a guise for some ill-formed political ideology. They then choose to back up these claims with little to no expertise in aviation.
Hope that clarified things.
I really liked the "the rest are of the world does it
this way" thread that ran throughout the article. Other countries also do ab initio training and have 250 hour guys sitting in the right seat of 100-200+ passenger jets.
I bet we'd avert any pilot shortage really quickly if we went back to that.