airplane401

$50k for initial training through commercial.
1300 hours * $130 per hour 172 rental = $169,000

Total Cost for Training and Hours = $219,000 LMAO

SirLurksalot

If you choose to rent for 1250 hours after you have your cpl, you deserve to be broke

DarkSideMoon

Too good to work for those 1300 hours like the rest of us?

MantisToboggan

Let's assume "flying job x" for someone with a fresh commercial pays $25. 1250 x 25 = $31,250, and gets you to atp mins. And, cadet programs at regional airlines that reimburse up t0 $5,000 and guarantee you a job when you reach atp mins.

If you pay for a 172 for 1300 hours (would actually be 1250 hours btw) when you have a certificate that allows you to get paid for all those hours while not just flying around on whatever whim you have that day, you're a special breed.

As they say "LMAO"

VIRotate

Anyone that pays past 250-300 hours shouldn’t be behind the controls of an airplane.

captande

I think it’s reasonable for the airlines to pay us who are already working for them, what we're worth given the current state of the pilot group. Do that before sending money out the door to people who aren’t even employees yet.

takingmessages

The horse ain't dead yet...

Aviation safety group appears to break with Flight 3407 families:
Aviation safety group appears to break with Flight 3407 families ? The Buffalo News

WASHINGTON – A venerable flight safety organization appears to be subtly criticizing one of the key provisions of the 2010 aviation safety law advocated by the Families of Continental Flight 3407, and Rep. Brian Higgins is not at all happy about it.
The Flight Safety Foundation, an independent, international flight safety group with a 70-year history, published a position paper this week that's less than a rousing endorsement of the law's requirement that all new commercial copilots have 1,500 hours of flight experience.
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Position Paper: Pilot training and competency
https://flightsafety.org/wp-content/...L-03-01-18.pdf

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Higgins pushes back on Flight Safety Foundation's position on pilot training requirements:
https://www.wnypapers.com/news/artic...g-requirements

Congressman Brian Higgins is pushing back on a position paper recently released by the Flight Safety Foundation that suggests reducing the flight time requirements for new airline pilots.
Higgins responded, "There is no give-and-take on flight safety. Any effort to give up the flight safety improvements, based on lessons learned after Flight 3407 and recommendations made by professionals at the NTSB, threatens the lives of passengers. Families in our community know the pain of what happens when tired, inexperienced pilots step into the cockpit. We've successfully fought to protect other families from that pain and we're not going back."
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Flight Safety Foundation Calls for Sweeping Changes to Pilot Training
https://www.flyingmag.com/flight-saf...pilot-training
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NuGuy

Not to necropost, but 18 months later and nary a peep about changing the ATP rule.

So moral of the story: Don’t listen to professors....they don’t live in the real world.

rickair7777

Well they tried, but the Colgan families didn't sit still for it.

Cyio

This is true in so many ways even outside of aviation.