Originally Posted by
Tjeff
Tiredsoul you should read my post on the last page I don’t know if you missed it or not. I agree there are ways to make it better by having more specific requirements. My point was 1500 hours doesn’t make everyone more experienced or safer entering the 121 world but if it does for some, isn’t that at least a start? I agree 1500 is arbitrary and should be revisited but it doesn’t mean that a lot of us didn’t improve vastly from the 250 hour mark I know I did which allowed me to be a safe and confident 121 captain.
Essential is going to throw a hussy fit when I say this:
There is no substitute for experience.
No doubt you improved, we all did.
My gripe is with the time number which in itself is meaningless of you don’t require experience as the two are not equal.
Complexity makes a better pilot,
Not flying the same hour a hundred times over.
As long as there is no experience complexity requirement the 1500 is meaningless and nothing but a feel good.
TSA looking for water bottles.