Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
Or the pilots who cut their teeth and made their mark in the single seat fighter/attack world?
I don't have any experience in a true Multi-crewed aircraft unless instructing to a single seat mentality counts, but I'm sure that I can easily adapt to such an environment. Heck - plenty of others have before me!
No....I personally think this bill ended up going the wrong way. Just requiring an ATP for a P121 carrier position would have been an easy solution in my opinion; but a compromise is a compromise is a compromise.
USMCFLYR
Yep, if you can't get into the right seat of an RJ after flying F-18s (not that you would), well then, this industry is really screwed up.
Originally Posted by
aviatorhi
Or it will push the "low paying" 15/hour jobs down to a Cape Air type environment (Cape Air=Good Company don't get me wrong here), but that's where someone should be starting, right seat of a light twin (402 to 1900 type airplane) with someone vastly more experienced in the left seat to show them the ropes.
Agreed 100% there. While the right seat of a 402 isn't the best place to be, the guys who do that for a few months upgrade and start building real PIC experience without a dispatch department to hold their hand. The only issue beyond that is, well, it's mostly single-pilot once you get your ATP and hit the line. How are regionals going to look at that from now on?