There are too many pilots. It is a fact. Pay is going down. Work rules are getting worse but yet the come.

Today a pilot can go from Zero to Hero in 3 to 6 months. The licenses are just too easy to get and general aviation is too expensive to do as a hobby anymore. Instead of just flying a 152 for fun pilots convince themselves that they have to do it for a living.

Regionals keep the pay low and hire 300 hour pilots because they really do not need experience anymore. Modern airplanes are mostly automated. Who cares if a pilot really can enter a hold while hand flying? Just push the right buttons and sit back with folded arms and watch the plane do it.

Minimums at the regionals are going down while at the majors they are going up. Odds are that most will be stuck at a regional until they realize that they can not make the jump to the majors and give up.

There is no value in being a pilot anymore. The flight director is king.

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