Exactly! I think the biggest benefit to this is it's going to get pilots into the workforce before going to the airlines. I know by the time I got my ATP I knew a lot more about this business than I did at 300. I think once you get that fresh commercial license and you're chomping at the bit to get going with this career most of us are ready to "do whatever it takes" without considering the consequences. At least after a few years in the business actually working there I think the new pilot will have seen good and bad companies and will not be willing to "whatever it takes" to get into a cockpit as they've already been in one.

So basically, by making it near impossible to just whip through pilot training because you want to fly the shiny jet, I think it will leave this career to those who really want just that, a career. I remember CFI'ing back in 2006 and a lot of the pilots I trained only cared about flying an RJ or large T-prop. My favorite moment was when I was talking about how to save gas by pulling back the prop on the Seminole to a low RPM and the student turned to me and said, "yeah well that's nice but this Seminole is going to be the last piston plane I ever fly." Besides me laughing my arse off for the remainder of the flight, he sure got a surprise after he graduated a year later and couldn't find work doing anything, let alone flying jets.