Originally Posted by
jakeinthesky
I'm not saying it makes sense, but if you read the transcript from the senate hearing committee on Colgan it's mentioned several times by folks on that committee that barbers need 1500hrs of experience to get a cosmetology license, and that if you need that much to cut someone's hair they didn't see why you shouldn't have that to fly an airliner. One could argue that's out of their butts but just for some context on how we got there.
Yeah especially since 1500 hours of barbering is 1500 hours of actually cutting hair. 1500 hours of flying can be 300 hours of actual flying and 1200 hours of listening to music and looking out the window, if one has an autopilot.