Originally Posted by wags3539

Noted...like I said, I'm not necessarily saying that raising minimums to 1500 hours is a bad thing, I'm just saying I can see it from the view of a student pilot as well. Just having 1500 hours does not guarantee that you will be exposed to the examples you have posted above. If I were to have 1500 hours tooling around in a Cessna 150 as a flight instructor, I wouldn't necessarily be exposed to 16 hour days, reduced rest, dealing with MX control/dispatch, etc. I'm not saying that flight instructing is not valuable, I agree that a 1500 hour pilot will most likely have better decision making abilities since they are exposed to more. I say most likely because you can fly for 1500 hours and not run into a single problem, while at the same time somebody else could fly for 100 hours and have an engine failure/fire right after takeoff. It's all relative, which is why I think quality of flight time and experience should still be taken into consideration.