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Old 05-28-2009 | 11:27 AM
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Lower Part 135 PIC minimums for non-passenger operations from 1200tt to 750tt.

This would enable a person to go to a place like Central Air Southwest or Flight Express after putting in a bit of work as a CFI or banner tower and start getting experience MUCH more applicable to a 121 environment than flight instructing MUCH more quickly.

Really though, and I don't intend this to come off as devil's advocate talking...but is the current setup of 500-1200tt pilots hired as regional FOs (because lets face it, there haven't been that damn many 300hr pilots hired at the 121 level even over the last decade) and seasoned to get experience by flying with captains really that different than the current setup in the medical field, where med school students become interns, then residents who supervise interns, then finally attending physicians who supervise residents?
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