Could the ATP requirements be rolled back?
 

Just wondering what the word is around the community about the possibility of the FAA easing back in the ATP requirements.

This about sums it up.

"Miracle on the Hudson" Pilot Joins 3407 Families In Push For Airline Safety

"3407 families are fearful of a push by the airline industry to ease the training requirements, and that it might be sneaked in as part of a broader bill to re-authorize the the FAA Charter this year."

As long as the families can get public heros like sully to stand up for them, I don't see it changing for at least another 5 years, they fought long and hard to get this rule put into place. I respect sully as a pilot but as a spokesman for the industry, he shouldn't be allowed to speak.

Well...everyone can have an opinion; but I for one absolutely disagree with your assessment of Sully as a spokesman for the aviation industry as a whole and the airline industry inparticular.

+1

filler

Money always talks and BS walks! we will see who outlast who!

Hopefully they double it. Toss in some legislation about high amounts of checkride failures or other background issues.

Why?.......

Not going to happen, at least not while the Colgan families are still around. Nor should it.

The airlines may feel entitled to a vast pool of already-certificated potential employees willing to fly airliners for fast-food wages but the reality is that there is no real shortage until airlines start funding ab-initio flight training for new-hires...if they can't fill classes at that point, then it's a shortage :rolleyes:

I'm not sure how or why anyone can feel entitled to occupy a PILOT seat of an AIRLINE TRANSPORT without at least meeting the requirements to hold an AIRLINE TRANSPORT PILOT certificate? But stranger (read dumber) things have happened.