Originally Posted by
Grumble
I hope you guys are paying attention to this kid. This is the voice of experience from a 20 year old. He's right, you're all wrong. Get with the program.
/sarcasm
I hope you realize kiddo, that there are experienced pilots out there like myself with 4 year aviation degrees that are jumping through our own asses to help squash this "expemtion of experience" for a formal education.
I've written no less than a dozen letter to politicians expressing my opinions on the matter, and received several letters of support from them. I've also flamed away at the ERAU alumni department for their part in trying to subvert the minimums. As was expected, they've largely ignored me, which is fine, my bank account ignores them.
I understand that there are a lot of people out there with a ton more experience than my self and I do respect their opinions. If you have read some of the other posts(i know you have since you commented on the same thread) I have said that I know I am not experienced enough at this point to make the decisions pilots like the guys with 25K TT flying transpolar in a 747 have. I am not saying that I can do your job but I believe that the 1500TT rule will be the cause of the PIlot Shortage. Everyone here has their fair share of horror stoys from flying with low time pilots. Well Personally learning is the result of expierence. I am sure you all have your fair share a storys from flying with guys with 2K hours. I agree with you I haven't even graduated yet and Purdue is asking me to donate money already. I feel my bank account will be ignoring Purdue not only becasue of that but because of the issue of not having any moeny to donate.
As long as someone worked for a certain wage then they will continue to only offer that salary.
Also I am 22 i think I now should get some real respect...Just joking