Originally Posted by
ReadOnly7
No self-respecting professional should ever actually support a view like this. If you require 100 hours of IOE, you should be shown the door.
Originally Posted by
tallpilot
Perhaps 100 is high but the FAA minimum was designed for a pilot with multiple type ratings transitioning to a different piece of equipment not someone fresh out of a 172. It would be nice to take the UPT approach and wash out anyone who fails any lesson twice but the labor supply isn’t going to allow that. If you wish to maintain a single level of safety then the training programs must account for different learning rates and prior experience.
Depends. There are a few pilots who come from non-121 and/or non-jet backgrounds who can be perfectly capable 121 pilots with additional training to get them to the right level. There are also some who never really get there, no matter how much training they have and the trick is differentiating the two.
In the old days we got in the habit of low tolerance for training repeats because it was a buyer's market for pilots and the airlines didn't want to spend the money on extra training... so to get in the game you not only had to succeed, you had to do it in very close to the regulatory minimum. That doesn't absolutely mean that you *have* to breeze through training in order to develop into a good pilot.
With a bad labor shortage some regionals lose interest in the distinction, just want meat in seats.