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⌐ AV8OR WANNABE
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.
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?
Our licenses are a joke abroad. Have you ever seen the requirements for an ATP outside the U.S. The book work is daunting compared to ours. It doesn't mean their pilots are better its just that they have gone through a better vetting process than ours is.
BTW, I'm all for creating an elitist society of aviators that are sought after for employment in this country. That means our standard of living, etc., will rise.