Originally Posted by
Profane Kahuna
Summary....if the massive retirements get reduced to ZERO for three years and the 1500 hour requirement gets reduced like you are advocating for, there will be more ATP holding "Pilots" than landscapers in a Home Depot parking lot......AND WAGES WILL GO DOWN.
You are REALLY bad at math.
Originally Posted by
PineappleXpres
Wages can go lower since bonuses can vanish if supply lines for pilots exceed the demand.
Except that the unions wouldn't let that happen. And even if the 1500 hour rule was lowered, and the retirement age were extended, that would only ease the problem, not solve it long term.
Originally Posted by
PineappleXpres
No coincidence crap wages went away after mins went up.
Correlation doesn't equal causation.
Originally Posted by
Jdub2
Renslow was hired at Colgan with 618 total time. Ergo, the ATP rule would have precluded his being hired at Colgan. Had he been subjected to the ATP rule, he would have needed close to 900 more hours. He would have had many more opportunities to learn and command a smaller aircraft before commanding a transport category aircraft. Even if he resisted learning anything from CFI'ing those 900 hours, it would have provided more opportunity to stall in real life.
There's a lot you can learn in 1500 hours. And again, even if you don't learn, it provides a lot of chances for idiots to be selected out of this career. Or to self select themselves out of existence before they take 50 terrified passengers with them.
Maybe, but it has never been substantiated with numbers. So it's nothing more than a thin justification used by politicians, bureaucrats, and union hacks.