Originally Posted by wingtipwalker

The main challenge with the 1500 hour rule is the Ponzi scheme it sets up. So you're a freshly minted CFI with ~300 hours and ~200 hours dual recieved. To get to 1500 hours you need to give 6 additional students 200 hours dual instruction. Those 6 students each need 6 students, who need 6 students, who need 6 students.....20 cadets in an airline pathway program need 120 cadets to teach as instructors, and those 120 need 720, those 720 need 4,320... ad infinitum...it gets pretty unmanageable really quickly. Before you know it, every man, woman and child in the US is a flight student.

Big flight schools have always solved this problem with non-CFI producing training programs for foreign airlines. Chinese, Korean, Indian, etc. But COVID and the geopolitical turmoil has all but killed that.


I don't think that they will do away with the 1500 hour rul. There will be a new FAA Part 14X standard that comes out for an MPL license. The Europeans have been doing it for decades. Japan does it. You train for ~250 hours in airline specific training, then you move on to type training, and then you have an MPL certificate that only coverts to an ATP after you get more than 1500 hours.