Originally Posted by
TurboDog
I agree with this letter. While I agree with it, I think the change needs to start at the flight schools. You shouldn't be able to leave a flight school as a student with less than 250 hours. 141 Training schools should have students graduating with near 500 hours. Then going on to instruct or whatever to get experience. Getting hired at an airline though should be closer to 2000 hours.
You're funny. lol. Yeah, lets go and pay for 500hrs of flight time. That would be $70,000 for 500hrs at $140/hr, which is typical for a 172sp in my area, not including an instructor for an additional $40/hr. If this were the case I would not have even considered being a pilot.