Yes, and I don't think Albert Einstein went to school but taught himself...these people are sophonts in what they do, they are the exception and not the norm.

I think part of the reason people have so much respect for doctors or lawyers is because they know they've had a lot of schooling, and dedicated a lot of time to their profession. They can not take any shortcuts, and generally these professionals are very well spoken. We need higher barriers for entry to 121 carriers; holding an ATP, 23, and 4 year college degree in anything. These 90 day school should be banned by the FAA; all these schools are doing is barley checking the boxes, especially when the president of the school has Designated Examining Authority and just passes students to claim the high success of all their candidates. It's a huge conflict of interest.

Yes it will be harder for people to go from 250hrs-1500hrs. They will have to instruct, part 91 operations, and part 135...but this is what we need for safe pilots to be flying around 50+ people. This will all initially cause a shortage because the public is finding out, and the banks, that pilots make no money. When the airlines don't have pilots to fill the seats in 5-10-15 years, they will be forced to raise their pay and give initial bonuses, just like our nurses today are getting. As this pay goes up to what it should be, people who have their certificates are going to come out of the woodwork, and students will be back to training in high numbers. This will create a lot of flight instructing jobs, and if that still isn't enough to get pilots up to 1500 hours, the airlines will throw these new commercial students in a full motion sim for 1200 hours to get their time up and pay them if they need them.

Some people think all the flying is going to be traded down to the regionals, and we don't like that because the pay is bad, and the schedules are bad...but in the future the pay and schedules will have to change, and then nobody can complain because the regionals will be very simular to what the majors have. Well I guess we will always have something to complain about.