Under the Schumer compromise, the FAA will have to set an 800-hour flight requirement for copilots by the end of next year. Some of that experience would have to be in multiple-pilot environments and adverse weather including icing, as well as in other specific conditions.
I wonder whether 'multi-pilot' would require a plane that actually requires two pilots on its type certificate, or can two guys just hop in a C-152? One will log instrument and the other PIC, of course.
Most flight schools are in places where the weather is great, so there's no icing. Anyone ever heard of an aircraft certified for known icing typically used in civilian training? This will be interesting if it actually passes.
“We don’t want to have people coming right out of flight schools and right to the commercial airlines,” Kuwik said. “They’re going to have to do something else first. Their entry- level job is not going to be as a commercial airline pilot.”
Will the high priced flight schools get a carve out? I hope not. Good ground instruction is worthless if not practically applied.
Sounds like this bill will improve the experience of the average new pilot significantly
if it passes in its proposed form - thank you families of 3407.