Originally Posted by
snippercr
Hate to be that guy, but isnt the ATP rule Aug 2013, not 2012? If anything, that gives the airlines some time to hire the sub 1000 hour pilots (like it or not, 500 hour hiring seems to be coming again) before the rule takes effect (although the pilots need the ATP BEFORE Aug 1 2013) but a year into the start of the age 65 retirees.
I've heard this phrase, "Ab-Initio" thrown around a lot and I am not quite sure of its meaning regarding aviation. Would that be like Multi-Crew or would that be an airline taking in people and going from 0-ATP?
From Wiki:
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aviation: The very first stage of flight training.
From my understanding it means a company takes on a new/fresh/untrained person and provides them the required training from step one; train them as you want them from scratch.
Others on here say that it has been tried (or a close form of it - extremely low time hires), yet isn't in practice anymore which means that it must not have been found to be a good practice for US airlines.
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