Originally Posted by
TurboDog
Would be interesting if they put in a mandate stating that the only way you could fly for a US part 121 carrier was to obtain your training from a 2 or 4 year Associates or Bachelors degree or come through the military. Might sound kind of out there, but really it's not. To fly a Jet in the military you MUST have a 4 year degree. Why should it be any different for part 121?
The military does NOT require that you have a four-year degree to fly airplanes. They require that you have the degree to be a commissioned officer. As it turns out the services which fly jets use commissioned officers but that is not a legal requirement. There are many army pilots who do not have degrees.
I agree that airline pilots should have degrees, but I'm not sure that it should be legislated.
And it is ridiculous to require graduation from an aviation degree program. Many of those do not have particularly high standards at all...if you can pay, you can fly! Even the military does not require that you go to any particular college...but they will dis-enroll you from flight training if you screw up more than once or twice.