Originally Posted by 3XLoser

Yes, there have been no-time pilots in the right seats of big jets, but they were being mentored by 10,000+ hour Captains in the left seat (who rarely stalled their airplanes while intercepting the glideslope). A beaurocratic road-block that would require an airline pilot to have an Airline Transport Pilot License (I know, strange) or at the very least be illegible for such a license, would be a collar to try to prevent companies like Colgan from hiring low-time and pay-to-play type pilots and then checking them out a year or two later. It might even provide some upward pressure to the industry wages.