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12-02-2017, 07:20 PM
#22
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Originally Posted by bamike
Why does commutair want 30 hours ME time, can’t you credit 25 hours in the sim?
12-02-2017, 07:23 PM
#23
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Originally Posted by Five93H
Jesus, is 30 hours that much to ask before flying a jet?
12-03-2017, 02:19 AM
#24
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Originally Posted by Bgood
Relax a bit bro its just a 145. Id also rather not waste an extra 5hrs x $330 to get in if I can get in without spending it. Beside, jumping in a duchess to do a long cross country for just 5 hrs won't make an individual a much better jet pilot.
02-15-2018, 08:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Five93H
Jesus, is 30 hours that much to ask before flying a jet?
The Colgan inspired changes have put us in a place where CFIs with 1500 hours of mainly puttering around the local pattern in 152s doing innumerable stop and goes while keeping student pilots from killing themselves or bending the equipment, coupled with an instrument ticket that has never actually been used constitutes the lowest common denominator FO for scheduled airline service and, worse yet, that person is being supervised by someone with the same credentials (or lack of credentials) who upgraded after they added a thousand hours of 121 SIC time.
We are in for some interesting times, in the Chinese curse definition of that phrase.
02-15-2018, 10:14 AM
#28
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Originally Posted by Bgood
Relax a bit bro its just a 145...
02-15-2018, 02:45 PM
#29
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Originally Posted by texaspropguy
This is like the saying "a Piper Cub is just barely fast enough to kill you," but worse. Gotta set the bar somewhere, and 30 is too low. Hell, why not just get rid of the whole F'ing multi time requirement altogether if it just doesn't matter (...cause it does).
An extra 5 hrs in the pattern at a non -towered field just keeps him/her current in that airplane. I agree the bar has to be set, but right now it's 25hrs.
I wouldn't agree with getting rid of the Multi requirement all together becuz even though the hrs requirement is low, the concept of multiengine is still learnt and having it as regulation make it a must-be-learnt, is there room for improvement? Hell yeah. As pilots we should always have room for improvement.
Last edited by Bgood; 02-15-2018 at 03:09 PM.
02-15-2018, 03:02 PM
#30
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Originally Posted by Excargodog
☝🏼️ My favorite posting of this thread. We are seeing the law of unintended consequences coming back to bite us in the arse.
The Colgan inspired changes have put us in a place where CFIs with 1500 hours of mainly puttering around the local pattern in 152s doing innumerable stop and goes while keeping student pilots from killing themselves or bending the equipment, coupled with an instrument ticket that has never actually been used constitutes the lowest common denominator FO for scheduled airline service and, worse yet, that person is being supervised by someone with the same credentials (or lack of credentials) who upgraded after they added a thousand hours of 121 SIC time.
We are in for some interesting times, in the Chinese curse definition of that phrase.
The Colgan inspired changes have put us in a place where CFIs with 1500 hours of mainly puttering around the local pattern in 152s doing innumerable stop and goes while keeping student pilots from killing themselves or bending the equipment, coupled with an instrument ticket that has never actually been used constitutes the lowest common denominator FO for scheduled airline service and, worse yet, that person is being supervised by someone with the same credentials (or lack of credentials) who upgraded after they added a thousand hours of 121 SIC time.
We are in for some interesting times, in the Chinese curse definition of that phrase.
It's a cycle, so you really can't say the FO is being supervised by a Captain with same credentials. Cuz wen that Captain was an FO, he/she gain knowledge from previous Captains; and the cycle continues with each captains gaining perspective from other multiple captains that they flew with in the past.
Last edited by Bgood; 02-15-2018 at 03:43 PM.
