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11-14-2012, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by DryMotorBoatin

No age limit as long as you can pass a first class is right around the corner.

You know, it always surprises me when I bring that up and people just laugh as if its so inconceivable. When regionals start cancelling 35% of flights daily, you better believe the FAA/congress will reluctantly act and the age limit goes bye bye.

11-14-2012, 03:16 PM

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No age limit as long as you can pass a first class is right around the corner.

Not until we have a national transportation meltdown due to a true pilot shortage. Besides it won't help that much...beyond 65 it eventually gets harder and harder to pass 1C medical and pass recurrent...and that's for the guys who actually want to keep flying.

11-14-2012, 03:30 PM

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Not until we have a national transportation meltdown due to a true pilot shortage.

Or at least until Roger Cohen scares the right people into thinking there is going to be one.

11-14-2012, 03:38 PM

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I heard the same thing when age 65 passed. It was a common expectation that most would only stay to 62-63 and retire. Why would someone leave a job with outstanding senority that is essentially part-time, with max pay and benefits?

Just from personal experience and observation walking around the airport, we all know that a 1st Class Medical can be easily obtained.

11-14-2012, 03:56 PM

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Who needs a bridge when you have a shortage. Just get 1500 and you interview them and then you decide who you want to fly for. Just don't mess up the written or your paperwork.

11-14-2012, 08:47 PM

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The problem with OSU is as a CFI you would be there for many a years to get to 1500 (I graduated 2 years ago, didnt go the CFI route and have more hours than some CFIs that graduated 2 years before me!). Any prospective student who does his/her research would choose a different school all together.

11-19-2012, 07:15 AM

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Kent State is only 2 hours to the Northeast... Instructors leave all the time up there

Might have been a better program for PSA instead of OSU.

11-19-2012, 10:21 AM

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What are the chances of some of the major airlines having bridge programs such as these?

11-19-2012, 10:27 AM

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What are the chances of some of the major airlines having bridge programs such as these?

Zero (in the US anyway) for the conceivable future. They have tens of thousands of regional and 135 pilots to pull from, they have no need for any sort of bridge program.

11-19-2012, 10:30 AM

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Zero (in the US anyway) for the conceivable future. They have tens of thousands of regional and 135 pilots to pull from, they have no need for any sort of bridge program.

Thank You.