Originally Posted by
j1b3h0
At the risk of sounding elitist, one shouldn't be in the cockpit of an airliner conducting 121 operations until holding an ATP. Or in lieu of that, a single pilot, multi-eng, IFR letter. For 99% of all those people clamoring for that 1000hrs, there are plenty of SINGLE engined airplanes in which they wouldn't survive 3 times around the patch. Is that who we want flying OUR family? Inexperienced pilots are a huge liability to the entire industry. For all those 300 hour wonders waiting to flame me, talk to me after you've spent a couple of seasons flying part 135 in a Navajo for Ameriflight. Oh, wait, you don't have the hours for that.
Please, judging from your elitist attitude you sound like one of those CAs that tell their FOs to level off at 500fpm instead of 1000. I agree that we shouldn't have 200 wonders however ATP mins is exaggerated for right seat RJ. And there is no need to be a freight dog as well. The mins aren't magical numbers, they are determined by insurance based on risk. Single engine freight which is probably the hardest flying is still 1200 hours.
What we need is a tougher training like they do the rest of the world. That would help weed out a lot that are in it for something other than flying and help with the SJS pandemic. To hold even a commercial/atp in Europe for example is very difficult. In China, you have to renew your license every 6 months. Any monkey can go from private to ATP here, all you need is flight time. I bet those guys from pinanacle that 410ed it on the CRJ2 would have probably survived if they actually knew what they were doing up there or had some general knowledge of how a jet airplane flys.