Glad to see most people understand that the 1500 hour rule wasn't about safety, it was about the unions

I think it was about safety.

It had a fringe benefit to unions too. But do you really think that commercial pilots should be making $15-19K to fly the public? Also safety related, because people making <$20K aren't going to get much rest since they can't afford to live in the vast majority of domiciles.

oh it was 100% about safety. Whether it promoted safety is a separate discussion

Well you're wrong.

If it was about safety they would have made the rule qualitative instead of quantitative.



False dichotomy.

Qualitative in most anything is open for debate and difficult to measure. Not saying quantitative is perfect. But you cannot look me straight in the face and say 1,500 is no better than 250. Now is it better than 1,400 is open for debate.

Could you imagine the whining if they tried to make it qualitative?

Is 300 hours of turbine time with 60 landings more valuable than 200 landings in 50 hours in a 172? Does private pilot dual in a Cirrus count for more than banner towing in a taildragger? What about 50 hours of burning up the pattern doing soft field landings on a grass strip vs operating IFR in SoCal or New York?

They should definitely give credit to 135 time over CFI time.

In my experience and observation, 700-800 total time is about where things start to finally settle in. But of course that is anecdotal.

This is 100% true. If I were making $19k/yr, I'd be living in a van, and not one of those nice Instagram vans with Ikea cabinets and a fold-out memory foam mattress. I mean one of those old, rusted-out service vans that get the cops called on it. No way I'm getting good sleep if the stray cats are particularly aggressive or there's a cold snap that night.

That's not unreasonable. But 200 hours is to low for 121 (yes there were 141 CPL's with 200 hours flying RJ's 20 years ago).