If it's going to raise regional pilot pay then I am all for it, but if its to increase safety then I'm confused. I don't understand why the FO needs to have the same qualifications as the captain. A doctor in his residency can perform surgery with a licensed doctor supervising, once they are out of residency and pass the board exam they are a licensed doctor and make good money. It just seems that this pilot profession requires additional certification without having anything happen to pay. Please clarify if I misunderstood something.

 

1,500 hours is nothing, quit crying.

 

10 pages, MINIMUM.

 

I know what you mean. I got my commercial in 2010. at that time I could have started working and a few months later I could go to an airline. But I decided to go back to school and finish my degree. Now I am 2 years behind my cohorts because I decided I wanted a degree

 

This horse is so dead...

 

Not a multitasker?

 

This is just a guess, but I think for the most part it was a reaction to the Colgan accident captain's method of reaching the level of airline employment. He had hours and hours logged wherein apparently not the appropriate learning had occurred. He failed a bunch of primary training, and then instead of going to learn something for a thousand hours that may have been useful someday, he saw an easier route... paid for a "job" building "valuable" SIC time and proceeded to learn almost nothing that might have helped him know how to pay attention at critical moments.

Hours are a crude way to judge a pilot, but they are one of the few ways available, so here we are with 1500 needed. It is trying to prevent the above pathway of "learning" and "skill development" from ever happening quite so easily again. If you have a giant pile of money, it is probably still possible to learn nothing and have 1500 hours. The point is, most people don't, and those that do... why would they need to become airline pilots? They'll take care of themselves in a Cirrus/Bonanza/Citation someday.

 

The purpose of the 1500hr rule is to keep people like YOU away from the airlines until you know *** you are doing in an airplane, which generally just STARTS at around 1500hrs.

Now go and continue to instruct while you pay off your $200K of student loans to the Harvard of the skies.

 

I smell ATP flight school......