Originally Posted by
lolwut
We need barriers of entry to this profession. This is a good thing and most other professional careers have them. You shouldn't be able to spend 6 months and buy your way into an airline pilot job. Once we get some real barriers to entry, hopefully regionals will cease to be cost effective, scope will go back to majors, and this career will start to regain some of what it once was.
This is something we absolutely need.
This is exactly right. Despite that the CA had more than 1500 hours and so did the FO, I know for a fact the CA did a "zero to hero" program. He might not have even been in the industry if 1500 was required to get on with a regional.
I want people in the industry that are willing to do the time and effort to get the hours required to get hired. Not pay for them...