Originally Posted by
Silver2Gold
I could not agree more. Unfortunately, commercial aviation has lent itself to the notion that, with enough time and money, any rating can be obtained by anyone. I'm not for creating some sort of club of elitists, but rather a corps of professionals who have met demanding, uncompromising standards that not everyone can meet. The Air Force has probably washed out thousands of pilots over the years for landing a T-38 10 knots fast or a couple hundred feet long - and God Bless that. There is no do over, no re-test, and no amount of money can get a guy his wings. I would love to see the FAA take a similar approach to standards. Instead of flooding the market with cheap goods, ala Wal-Mart, our government would be wise to see the return of the American pilot as the gold standard of aviation.
You say you are not for creating an elitist club yet that's what you're implying. Tons of civilian pilots wash out from their flight schools and even more run out of money, something most military aviators never have to worry about (and I'm totally OK with it).
Even more never even get a chance to interview at a major airline or do it decades after their military counterparts. I know that’s a fact of life and I accept it but to claim that soon only military trained pilots will get “real” pilot training is an overkill. You're obviously very pro-military biased on this subject and that’s why you feel that way.
Originally Posted by
Silver2Gold
Our licenses are a joke to the European and Middle Eastern carriers.
Really? I bet you are against the ab-initio training and the multi-crew license, aren’t you? Yet many pilots in Europe and in the Middle East were part of the ab-initio training, so which license is a joke again?