what happens when a person who comes in with more than 1500 hours randomly forgets to look at the airspeed, stalls, and kills everyone again? do we jump the mins up to 3000, 5000? 1500 hours in a 172 isnt going to show you icing, thunderstorms, etc unless your stupid and put yourself into those situations. How many night freight jobs are out there? how about 135 jobs sitting in the right seat of a citation? eventually the demand for 121 pilots will exceed the amount of 1500 hour guys and then who knows what will happen. This still doesnt do anything to change pay. When airlines were having problems recruiting qualified pilots the last few years they didnt raise first year pay. they went to flight schools and said will give your instructors prefferential hiring.