Originally Posted by
TPROP4ever
I was really hoping most pilots would be very careful about jumping the gun on this and now I bet some will gripe, but all we can say is we got exactly what we asked for, with a few changes courtesy of the lobbies' (AND DONT TELL ME YOU WERE SO NIEVE THAT YOU THOUGHT IT COULDNT HAPPEN) The ATP provision is still in there, its just now they will allow credit for certain flight programs. Basically if you attend Embry Riddle you will now qualify for an ATP at 500 ( or some arbitrary lower number) instead of 1500 hrs, or thats how I read it. I hope I'm wrong, but I think we screwed ourselves. So now we will still have 500 hour pilots in the right seat, but they will now have an ATP instead of a CMEL. That is all we accomplished.........
What this accomplishes is removing the high school graduate 90 day zero to hero regional FO. A big step forward for the industry. Hard to demand better pay when your FOs were working at McDonalds 3 months ago. Even if you hate the college exception,
if Babbit lowers the Riddle requirements to 250 hours (and he wont) it'll still take 4 years. At least we can pretend we had to work hard to get there, maybe even approach the same league as other professionals? Not a lot of 19 year old 90-day program doctors out there.
Plus the fatigue stuff.