Is this what it's come to?
 

I'll just leave this here...

Yikes.............

That was actually very common for the past decade. We were hiring folks with 251 hours and 26 multi. It met the legal mins at the time. Now it's just 1501TT with 26 multi to get into an RJ.

Yep. How soon they forget. I can remember jumpseating on regionals pre-911 and quite a few FOs had less than 500hrs TT. And it wasn't just the bottom of the barrel regionals.

If I remember correctly I had about 1200TT and 250ME when I got my first job flying twin T-Props over the Grand Canyon. No MEI, no CFII. This was in the early to mid 90's.

25 hours seems pretty low. I know a guy at United who got hired somewhere around '89-'90. He was an intern and in his 30's. He DID NOT have his multi when hired. Was told he needed it before he started class. Went and got his multi and had a whopping 10 hours when he started class!

GP

Take a look back into the 50s and 60s, when UAL was hiring 0 hour pilots and training them.

Also look at Lufthansa...0hrs to Airbus in record time.

Its time we get paid more and receive better benefits.

TEN

Look at all the F16 pilots hired by the airlines over the years, how much 'Multi Time' do you think they had when hired?

I remember some who had to get the 'Centerline Thrust' restriction removed when they checked out as F/O's!

B-52 pilots had to get the centerline thrust restriction removed too.

Yeah but a viper develops a little more character in a pilot than a C-172.

I had 50 multi and no mei either. Upgraded in 1.8 years, 1k 121, and 2500tt. You're going to create a thread about hours?