Originally Posted by
rickair7777
I think it will raise the bar, perhaps indirectly, by requiring higher levels of experience and more up-front effort. People with experience have more options in aviation, and may not be attracted by regional food stamp wages.
If current 121 pilots are not grandfathered, then the airlines will have to provide the new rating during a PC. They may just opt to give everybody an ATP, same cost and they were going to have to do that when you upgraded anyway. The tradition in 121 is that they pay for required training, especially after you are already employed.
Any airline which refuses to provide the new rating would probably end up liquidated on the day the new rule took effect...I doubt many FO's would rush to go buy another rating out in town. Most of us have been in the right seat for 3-10 years...not much SJS left.
Rick, Again you miss the mark! it isn't about the hours. Is 800 going to make a pilot safe? How about 5000 hours? It isn't the hours, if that were the case explain Cali Colombia? so many case studies that show hours aren't the key factor. Sleep, better rest cycles, and giving the PIC actual athority to tell a dispatcher no way jose! The union didn't win and when this goes in to full bloom it will cripple an already crippled industry.
It is an ugly approach and you should have gone missed!