Originally Posted by TaylorPilot

I think most of you saying the rule should stay in place for financial reasons are missing the point of what the FAA does. They are not, and should not be concerned about your retirement portfolio. Their job is to create rules that provide safe air travel without undue burden. If they can't provide hard evidence that it does that, then it should go. Producing artificial barriers to entry to keep salaries higher is not in the mission statement of the FAA. The government does that all the time and it never works out well for anyone not already in the system.