Duffman

I think the most valuable experience is what is most closely related to your job, and 1200 hours of CFIing VFR is overkill doing a job that isn't that similar to 121. The Air Force trains people to fly F22s, C17s, etc with less flight time than a CPL, but it costs $3M, is very standardized, and pushes very smart, dedicated people to their limits throughout the whole program. I'm ok with them lowering the hour requirements as long as new pilots get high-quality, commensurate training. If Republic wants to hire people at 250 hours, but then require them to complete a year-long, standardized, 121 syllabus, with 100 graded sims, and high standards, then I'm ok with that. If they want to hire 250-hour pilots, and then add a few lessons to their existing FO syllabus, maybe pay for some time in a Cessna, and call it good, then I hope the execs go to jail for negligence when something goes wrong.


Break break


Removing a pilot makes the only remaining pilot a single point of failure, and there's a reason why redundant systems are a thing, especially in aviation. They might reduce the required augmented crew for long-haul, because it's mostly low workload, but when the sterile light is on, you need two pilots up there.

IronCondor

Oh no, I better get back on the highway of allowable opinion. lol

Random Task

Nail on the head. What people DONT talk about here is that those 300 hour CPL in Europe have never done a Chantelle or 8s on pylons. They've spent their ENTIRE training process in a highly rigorous airline style training pipeline.

Swakid8

How about you spend some time looking into what Airbus is looking to trial on the A350.

Alpiner

It’s called experience, I’ll fly with a 3000hr pilot over a 300hr pilot any day

apc1432

Just cuz the engineers can build it doesn't make it right or smart.
Solitary confinement is a well known punishment for good reason.
Pilots make mistakes...the other pilot is there to help trap them, give correction feedback and support, yell "go around" etc ... Redundancy.
Better no pilot than single pilot.

Swakid8

I am not disagreeing with you about this. The only point I was making in my earlier post is that Single Pilot Airliners are already coming down the pipe regardless the pushback against the reduction of the 1500 hours. It’s not a matter of if but it’s a when. It’s naive to believe otherwise.

As I’ve said, look into Airbus research into it with regarding the A350. Cathay Pacific was already looking for a way to get involved with the studies…

Don’t think I am taking a position of supporting single pilot airliners or any reduction of the 1500 hour rule.

Excargodog

Dropping the hour requirement because a regional wants you to is absolutely as reasonable as letting Boeing certify their own aircraft because the company wants you to. And just how well did that work out?

Hale98

I think the problem is that 1500 is an arbitrary number, there's no real rhyme or reason to it. I'm a student myself but I can't help but think that a fairly rigorous program of simulator training in a jet would much better prepare me for the airlines than towing banners for two summers would. There has to be a better way of properly evaluating pilots than just saying fly 1500 hours and you're qualified. Just my $.02

BoilerUP

The rhyme and reason is 1500 hours is the FAR minimum to hold an unrestricted Airline Transport Pilot certificate.