Originally Posted by
heading180
Easy for us to say it's a great idea now that most of us have in excess of 1500 hours. How would you feel about it if you had just earned your CMEL or CFI. It would seem like a very dim light at the end of the tunnel.
If someone is not willing to flight instruct for 1200 hours or so (assuming you have 300 hours when you get your CFI) to get on with a regional, you don't deserve to be an airline pilot anyway.
It sucks to have to babysit a spiky haired, Iphone texting (during taxi nonetheless!), nonchecklist reading, cocky for no reason airline "pilot". I say 1500 hours should be the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM!