1500 rule grandfather clause, here it comes!
03-21-2012, 11:13 PM
#31
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After reading this article:
A concerned citizen would be furious that the pilots flying their families around have little to no experience. They would go to the internet and search "Regional Airlines in USA." To their surprise, the search yields such a high list of regional airlines. Then they will start checking their previous airline tickets and finds out they recently traveled on one regional, getting even more furious. They write to their Congressmen/women and Senators demanding regionals to show the pilot hours in their tickets. More concerned citizens join in and form a boycott to stop travelling in regional airlines, until more experienced crews are hired. The Regionals complain that experience crews are hard to find. By now, the concerned citizens population grows daily,and they investigate the qualified pilot shortage. Turns out, qualified pilots will not work for the crap wages in the regionals. A few months later, little revenue from the boycott and pressure from the Majors force the regionals to increase the pay substantially inorder to get high time crews and stop the boycott. A bill is also passed to set a minimum pay scale well over the poverty line.
Oh, if only we lived in a perfect world.......
A concerned citizen would be furious that the pilots flying their families around have little to no experience. They would go to the internet and search "Regional Airlines in USA." To their surprise, the search yields such a high list of regional airlines. Then they will start checking their previous airline tickets and finds out they recently traveled on one regional, getting even more furious. They write to their Congressmen/women and Senators demanding regionals to show the pilot hours in their tickets. More concerned citizens join in and form a boycott to stop travelling in regional airlines, until more experienced crews are hired. The Regionals complain that experience crews are hard to find. By now, the concerned citizens population grows daily,and they investigate the qualified pilot shortage. Turns out, qualified pilots will not work for the crap wages in the regionals. A few months later, little revenue from the boycott and pressure from the Majors force the regionals to increase the pay substantially inorder to get high time crews and stop the boycott. A bill is also passed to set a minimum pay scale well over the poverty line.
Oh, if only we lived in a perfect world.......
03-22-2012, 12:17 AM
#32
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Originally Posted by DrangonStar45
After reading this article:
A concerned citizen would be furious that the pilots flying their families around have little to no experience. They would go to the internet and search "Regional Airlines in USA." To their surprise, the search yields such a high list of regional airlines. Then they will start checking their previous airline tickets and finds out they recently traveled on one regional, getting even more furious. They write to their Congressmen/women and Senators demanding regionals to show the pilot hours in their tickets. More concerned citizens join in and form a boycott to stop travelling in regional airlines, until more experienced crews are hired. The Regionals complain that experience crews are hard to find. By now, the concerned citizens population grows daily,and they investigate the qualified pilot shortage. Turns out, qualified pilots will not work for the crap wages in the regionals. A few months later, little revenue from the boycott and pressure from the Majors force the regionals to increase the pay substantially inorder to get high time crews and stop the boycott. A bill is also passed to set a minimum pay scale well over the poverty line.
Oh, if only we lived in a perfect world.......
A concerned citizen would be furious that the pilots flying their families around have little to no experience. They would go to the internet and search "Regional Airlines in USA." To their surprise, the search yields such a high list of regional airlines. Then they will start checking their previous airline tickets and finds out they recently traveled on one regional, getting even more furious. They write to their Congressmen/women and Senators demanding regionals to show the pilot hours in their tickets. More concerned citizens join in and form a boycott to stop travelling in regional airlines, until more experienced crews are hired. The Regionals complain that experience crews are hard to find. By now, the concerned citizens population grows daily,and they investigate the qualified pilot shortage. Turns out, qualified pilots will not work for the crap wages in the regionals. A few months later, little revenue from the boycott and pressure from the Majors force the regionals to increase the pay substantially inorder to get high time crews and stop the boycott. A bill is also passed to set a minimum pay scale well over the poverty line.
Oh, if only we lived in a perfect world.......
03-22-2012, 02:56 AM
#33
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Joined APC: Jun 2008
Posts: 711
Originally Posted by SkyHigh
My favorite part:
"The only place you can get experience is in the cockpit of an airplane experiencing all that goes on," Kuwitsky said. "Now you can get 3,000 or 4,000 hours of experience in a crop-duster — that has no translation to our operation."
My question is; how does 1500 hours of touch and goes from the right seat of a 172 going to help one to fly a transport category airplane either? Most of the things that a new pilot does to build time do not apply to airline flying at all.
The best way to build time to become an airline pilot is to serve as one. The flight deck is a system of mentor and apprentice. It only takes one guy to fly the plane. The other is there as back up and to learn. Not to be a second captain.
Skyhigh
"The only place you can get experience is in the cockpit of an airplane experiencing all that goes on," Kuwitsky said. "Now you can get 3,000 or 4,000 hours of experience in a crop-duster — that has no translation to our operation."
My question is; how does 1500 hours of touch and goes from the right seat of a 172 going to help one to fly a transport category airplane either? Most of the things that a new pilot does to build time do not apply to airline flying at all.
The best way to build time to become an airline pilot is to serve as one. The flight deck is a system of mentor and apprentice. It only takes one guy to fly the plane. The other is there as back up and to learn. Not to be a second captain.
Skyhigh
Instructing isn't the only valuable form of flying experience. Many who so heavily get defensive about it are usually* those who have ONLY instructed, and nothing else, prior to starting their careers at the airlines. I've had the privilege of working different flying jobs, including instructing for 800 hours or so, and I still feel that some of the most valuable and diverse time-building experience came from flying single-engine aerial survey from coast to coast.
Your mileage may vary but it is no reason to talk in absolutes when ranking which flying jobs make a better pilot. (This isn't directed at you specifically but more so in general.)
03-22-2012, 04:22 AM
#34
Don't need that HUD!
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Originally Posted by DrangonStar45
...months later, little revenue from the boycott and pressure from the Majors force the regionals to increase the pay substantially inorder to get high time crews and stop the boycott...
Beware the law of unintended consequences...
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