Actually, as a young guy, I concur as well. It'll make it a bit harder to get in, but if the job is better then it's worth the extra work.

Do you mean the SIC type that ICAO requires for intl ops? not worth the paper it's printed on. means you survived the sim, nothing more.

Ive only come across 3 people who had over a 1000 hours at 20. It is very rare. all 3 were cfis, and one of them also had a inside connection flying lears on the weekends and during our school breaks.

No it doesn't. The type is only required for FOs who do IRO duties. Flying a B-767 2 man crew on flights domestic or international that do not require an IRO does not, by regulation, require an ATP certificate nor a type rating.

But then you enter the viscous cycle. How can you require more experience and a higher rating if you are not going to pay more than 20K a year?

Since when was the last time you flew on any commercial airplane as a passenger or as a crewmember that the FO was not trained to be able to take over for the PIC if something happened? Apparently you must not be too impressed with your own companies traning of its' FOs. Either that or when you got your ATP someone described it too you in a way that you decided it was the "sky king" rating. I bet you are a real joy to fly with.

Your generalization that RJ, young, low time FOs are not qualified to save your a$$one day is a discredit to your profession and all on this forum.

While I have considerably more than 150 hours, I don't have an ATP, but I safely fly my 50 seat jet just fine with a commercial certificate. If my CA is incapacitated, I'll uhhh, land the plane like I do all the time.

"Your generalization that....low time FOs are not qualified to save you.....is a discredit to your profession and all on this forum."

Ummm. Not really. Most on this forum would agree with him. I don't know how you want to define low time, but I think the bar has gone far too low with respect to experience levels to be an airline pilot.

I think the profession would be better off with ATP mins to be in the right seat of an airline jet. Heck, they might even have to raise the pay to attract such experience levels.

Don't worry about this guy. It was his company that allowed the proliferation of the RJ concept to become common place because Delta pilots could not and would not believe that RJs would make any real impact in numbers and felt all along that RJ pilots were not real jet pilots. Started in 1992 and spread like a virus. All RJ pilots flying for their parent companies should have been immediately placed on the mainline seniority lists and as such we would have been a much stronger profession.

I disagree. And if you feel that way. Why is IPA willing to put your crew members on RJs every day getiing to and from many of your assignments if it is so unsafe.