Out of curiosity, what are the wages of CFIs now?

Wow… the entitlement generation indeed.

If you think working towards 1500hours was hard, you haven’t seen anything yet. This whole industry isn’t fair. Suck it up buttercup. You have looong way to go until you set the parking brake for the last time.

When I first started to learn to fly as a wee lad who barely had a drivers license, 3000tt and 500 multi MIGHT have gotten someone to look at your resume to fly right seat in a 19 seat turboprop. I busted my hump getting those numbers because that’s what was required during those times. When I finally graduated college and got my first airline gig, the times had seemingly changed overnight and I was sitting next to people in class with 250 hour total and a wet commercial certificate. Oh well. It was what it was.

Right. But we can probably assume the number of people taking up flying as a hobby is relatively constant. If we need 10,000 more ATPs yesterday, 100,000 new hobby pilots aren't going to come running out of the woodwork. That was my whole point about the current system being 'right sized' for the Lost Decade. Just because there's suddenly tons of new CPLs doesn't mean a commensurate number of pipeline or banner towing companies are going to open up. The current industry produces enough pilots to cover attrition in about 2015, not 2022.

Here is how to solve the problem since y’all don’t want to drop the 1500 hr min. Besides raising the retirement age to 70 or 75 the airlines will next lobby the FAA to go after the 1000 Actual Flt Time Rule and 100hrs/30 days. Your monthly schedules will be built with a minimum of 150 hrs per month. Minimum contactual days off for line holders of 10 days. Enjoy the extra flying.

Sure, somebody will just wiggle their pinky and it will happen. It might suck for anyone whose workrules are straight FAR 117, but the rest of us will just keep on keepin' on per our CBA's

I won't be surprised to see age 67 though, that's low-hanging fruit and relatively cheap for airlines and FAA.

Gave you the benefit of the doubt earlier, but now it's obvious you're trolling. Nice try, kid.

yeah, it's been obvious he's been a troll for days now. Even trying to do it on the Regional forums.

Just for the record Penn Air 3296 ran off the runway after landing with a more than 20 knot tailwind at Dutch Harbor in 2019 and a passenger died. And no one counts cargo flights like the Atlas 767 in Houston, also in 2019 or UPS in Birmingham in 2013.

Will a mod please ban this obvious troll.