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Originally Posted by Fixnem2Flyinem
I’ll start this off by saying I am a fan of the 1500 hour rule. It wasn’t that hard to build 1300 hours after getting the ratings, a few years is all. However, if there wasn’t a glut of guys such as you willing to climb up the ladder while being pee’d on the whole time, then maybe the airlines wouldn’t have been such a race to the bottom for so long. The truth is people got smarter over the years, they didn’t want to put themselves in the financial gutter to fly a plane, and that is the reason pay is going back up. So point fingers at the new guys all you want but starting a career by bending over and saying “thank you, may I have another” isn’t necessarily a good thing either. It made you part of the problem, a problem that lasted way too long.
If the 1500 hour rule goes away, it will crush any of the momentum we have to keep pay rising at the appropriate levels.
Dude, we were all chasing the dream of flying for a major, same as it is today. So what was I supposed to do? Tell all the guys I graduated with to quit flying so a select few of us could get good jobs? We didn't make the rules, we were just playing by them. It's just how it was. You graduated, you flight instructed, flew sightseeing, charters, skydivers, bush pilot, whatever you had to do to get at least 2500 hours to be considered for a shi**y regional job, make CA after several years and hopefully get hired by a major a couple years later. We all knew it was a long, hard road to the majors, but worth it in the end.
The only thing that's changed now is, it's not "a long, hard road". It's a couple of years of instructing.