Originally Posted by
mking84
You know there are alot of us that did just that now. Teaching in little planes, working your butt off.....all called paying dues and learning.
I see this is a huge blow the the 250 hour wonder at Riddle Diddle. That is no more, and for good reason. I predict good companies will have no problems with staffing, but companies like TSA will be unable to attract anybody to work there, they couldn't even keep up with people quitting when their mins were 250tt.
Flame away.
You're correct.
It's also funny that when it took 2500 hours to get an interview for a regional turboprop job nobody had any problems with that... it was the natural career progression.
Then the bubble burst and we did actually come up against a lack of qualified pilots, so the airlines had to actually dip to the point of hiring people who were just barely "legal" to hire...
that went on for a few years, and lots of college programs and ab initio programs expanded rapidly... so rapidly that nobody noticed the consequences of being able to go from ink wet to shiny jet.... the old way of earning your way up the ladder provided CFI's to teach for a year or two before getting their 135 gig to start them off... those days were now gone, and many flight programs had a hard time keeping instructors around.... just look at Daniel Webster... out of the flight training business.
These schools want to be able to send people right into the right seat of transport category aircraft. The problem is that the regional airline then becomes the training ground for the rest of the aviation industry, when previously you learned your way flying boxes at night.
forcing the license rule change will allow university and ab initio programs to resume the normal path of training, and then employing the best of their students. During the past 6 years the most common complaint I heard from flight students was they had to change instructors like 6 times before they finished their private because the airlines kept hiring them up.
That's a problem. Of course, recently that hasn't been a problem, and most CFIs are just happy to be getting paid to fly since so many folks are out of work altogether.