Originally Posted by
SonicFlyer
Alternate take:
1500 hour rule makes us less safe.
Why?
Because now the regionals are so desperate to put someone in the right seat, they will hire nearly anyone who meets the hour time requirement ignoring other potential factors. Quality of FO's decrease as a result.
And it forces people who have no interest in being a CFI, teach students. They will do the bare minimum and just blow through it as fast as they can, building hours, giving sub-par instruction. Maybe they should make regional FO's only have to have 250 hours, and a CFI have an ATP...LOL