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Be Realistic
Just for the record, the BA flight into LHR was handled by the first officer who was probably hired like most BA first officers are hired - with 200 hrs straight onto a 737 or A320 or maybe even a 757. Dangerous? No
Make the Commerical licence more difficult in line with the rest of the world, not just Europe (Try Australia!) intead of giving it away and hoping they learn something with a CFI ticket.
Maybe the FAA ATP should contain 12000 questions with 5% new questions each month to stop rote memory passing exams. Then the flight test could be close to 3 hrs too. That might weed a few out.
And while a good idea, the FAA will never spend the money that will take, the
Taxpayers wont allow it...we are our own worst enemies. The public doesnt want higher fares, and they also gripe if taxes are raised to fund critical institutions.
An example for you :they need to update the whole data base of questions, has anyone under 60 ever used a prognostic chart
. We have much better information available to us with computers these days but all weather questions are based off of 1960's technology...ought to give you some idea about how antiquated the FAA data base is, no wonder there are books out there with every question in them.