Originally Posted by
Son of Chuck
How about 2500 hr's. That would be somewhere around 1000 hr's instructing plus maybe another 1.5 - 2 yr's real world experience flying boxes, pax, lab work,etc. I know not all people would would get out of instructing at 135 min's to build time, but I believe enough would to advance their careers. I am not bashing CFI's, just pointing out how very controled the environment is in which they work. Just a thought.
Living the dream, one nightmare at a time
Considering the fact that no regional has crashed with a pilot under 2200 hours, that indicates that the 2200-5000 hour pilots are the problem.
So...I think if we make the law 2500 hours, it should be retroactive.
Fire every regional pilot who
didn't CFI for 1000 hours
and then fly 1.5-2 years of boxes/labwork/135. They need to go hit the pattern, master steep turns, and interpret weather for their 50nm cross countries.
It's the only way to make the regionals safer. Once they've gone back and learned the basics, they can reapply for the jobs they are so dangerously performing at now.
Originally Posted by
RJSAviator76
At 1500 hours, I had roughly 1300 or so hours of TRUE pilot-in-command time. Between flying skydivers, air tours and boxes, flying both IFR and VFR, having been exposed to and dealt with paperwork, signing for the airplane, being faced with challenges of line flying as a PIC, I felt ready to delve into the AIRLINE world AS AN FO! I learned the ropes in how the airline worked; I learned from captains and COMPOUNDED on my previous experiences to formulate myself as a captain. When upgrade came, I was ready.
According to this thread, you weren't even close to ready. 1500 hours is just getting started. You need to take a COLA and go pick up a CFI job to experience all the things
real pilots learned before their first 121 job. I need to know what major you work for so I remember not to let my family fly on it.