WE may know anyone can fly them, but the insurance companies are not going to accept that. That's why the low time VLJ pilots are being required to fly with "mentor" pilots. Especially if you're doing any type of commercial flying with your VLJ, the insurance companies are going to set high requirements for pilots. I think DayJets is seeing the issues with pay and VLJs -- you can't have low pay and expect to attract the quality of pilot you need.
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daytonaflyer
I would like to agree, but most of the new VLJ's are designed to be so automated that anybody can fly them with minimal airplane specific training. Thoughts of hundreds of doctors flying VLJ's, blowing through their assigned altitude and racking up FAA violations in the thousands will probably never happen since the technology on these planes is virtually "idiot proof".