Originally Posted by
SonicFlyer
Yeah the argument for 1500 holds no water in regards to safety. 500, 750, or even 1000 hours? yeah, sure, maybe that makes some sense. But 1500 was an arbitrary political number that some politicians pulled out of their butts.
1500 was an arbitrary political number? It was the established minimum for an ATP certificate for decades. They simply required the FO to hold an ATP. And then gave a lower threshold to get a R-ATP that would still count to the FO seat. If you want to say something was arbitrary and political about a certain number, it’s those lower qualifiers for R-ATP, not the 1500 for unrestricted ATP..