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The moral of the story is that we were running out of pilots long before the 1500 hr rule.
If you reset it to, say, 500 hrs the first thing that will happen is that training will stop as every CFI with a pulse gets hired. Then they will start getting retired folks to CFI at way higher pay. Training costs will climb and so-on ans so-on.
The solution is to make the actual QOL at the airlines better, or the pay higher, or both.
Until you offer a job that people actually want to apply for, it's all just lipstick on the same pig. And a lot of the younger generation are vegan.
Not that I disagree with you, but I don't think they put lipstick on it to eat it....Originally Posted by CANEWT
Lowering the 1500 hr rule will not stop the pilot shortage. It will just delay it about a year or 2. At my previous airline I was an LCA. I saw the change from when you needed 2000 hrs just to get a call from a regional, through the 500hr wonders and then on to the 1500 hr rule. I was there saw and saw it all. Over this time the regionals kept reducing the mins. Can't find folks with 1500hrs, fine, hire at 1000hrs, then at 500hrs.The moral of the story is that we were running out of pilots long before the 1500 hr rule.
If you reset it to, say, 500 hrs the first thing that will happen is that training will stop as every CFI with a pulse gets hired. Then they will start getting retired folks to CFI at way higher pay. Training costs will climb and so-on ans so-on.
The solution is to make the actual QOL at the airlines better, or the pay higher, or both.
Until you offer a job that people actually want to apply for, it's all just lipstick on the same pig. And a lot of the younger generation are vegan.
