ATP/ age 20 /1000 hrs.... Is this true?
01-18-2008, 08:02 AM
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ATP/ age 20 /1000 hrs.... Is this true?
One of our ALPA guys told me that that the Regional Transport Association (RTA) is pressuring the FAA and Congress to LOWER it's requirements for an ATP certificate to AGE 20 and 1000 hours. Is this true?
01-18-2008, 08:25 AM
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On a side note, anyone see the cartoon in Novembers Playboy? It had two airline pilots in the cockpit of a (cartoon ish, obviously) 767 and the captian turns to the f/o and says "the technology on these babies has reached the point where we ought to be able to have a few drinks up here". I thought it was funny...
01-18-2008, 08:36 AM
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Originally Posted by hjs1971
On a side note, anyone see the cartoon in Novembers Playboy? It had two airline pilots in the cockpit of a (cartoon ish, obviously) 767 and the captian turns to the f/o and says "the technology on these babies has reached the point where we ought to be able to have a few drinks up here". I thought it was funny...
01-18-2008, 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by SCRWDbyMGMT
One of our ALPA guys told me that that the Regional Transport Association (RTA) is pressuring the FAA and Congress to LOWER it's requirements for an ATP certificate to AGE 20 and 1000 hours. Is this true?
01-18-2008, 04:25 PM
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ALPA better be all over this or they are not watching out for our careers! The ATA has one agenda and that is keeping pilot pay low! Raise the pay and 1500+ hour pilots will show up to play.
01-18-2008, 04:33 PM
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If we want to raise our value in the marketplace the requirements to be in the right seat of a Part 121 RJ should be an ATP. Why should they not be qualified? If an RJ Captain is incapacitated who is going to land that jet with 50+ souls? The 150 hour dude?
01-18-2008, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by satchip
If we want to raise our value in the marketplace the requirements to be in the right seat of a Part 121 RJ should be an ATP. Why should they not be qualified? If an RJ Captain is incapacitated who is going to land that jet with 50+ souls? The 150 hour dude?
01-18-2008, 05:10 PM
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Yes it does require an atp and a type rating for international ops.
I am talking about the downward pressure on wages of the airline pilot. Instead of letting the supply curve catch up with the demand curve by raising wages, Regionals are allowed to deepen supply pool by lowering the requirements. By raising the requirements to an ATP and the requisite 1500 hours would shorten the supply and thusly raise wages. That in turn would exert upward pressure throughout the industry.
I didn't mean to denigrate the RJ or it's pilots. It's just an economic theory.
I am talking about the downward pressure on wages of the airline pilot. Instead of letting the supply curve catch up with the demand curve by raising wages, Regionals are allowed to deepen supply pool by lowering the requirements. By raising the requirements to an ATP and the requisite 1500 hours would shorten the supply and thusly raise wages. That in turn would exert upward pressure throughout the industry.
I didn't mean to denigrate the RJ or it's pilots. It's just an economic theory.
01-18-2008, 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by satchip
If we want to raise our value in the marketplace the requirements to be in the right seat of a Part 121 RJ should be an ATP. Why should they not be qualified? If an RJ Captain is incapacitated who is going to land that jet with 50+ souls? The 150 hour dude?
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