Originally Posted by
Whacker77
If someone held a gun to my head and forced me to pick an arbitrary number, I would choose 1000 hours. Maybe that's because it is a four digit time and looks realtively impressive, but I wouldn't impose goofy qualifiers to it like experience in icing or prior 135 experience.
I know American Eagle takes a lot of flack here, but look at their requirements for employement. You need 1000 hours, 200 multi, instrument time that equals 10% of TT, and a flying job for the 12 previous months. I'm not so sure about a requiring a previous job unless free lance CFI counts, but that looks pretty good to me.
Regardless, I just don't like government involvement, especially from Chuck Schumer.
Airline requirements don't mean squat. AE hired 400 hour pilots in the past, when they needed. As soon as the crunch is on, most regionals throw their standards book out the nearest window.
SKW probably did the best job of holding the line but even they went down to
800 hours for those with 121 CRJ experience. UAL hired 400 hour pilots in the not-really-so-distant past.
I'll take the government's best efforts and compromise this time because I think it beats the alternative.