1500hr / ATP for Part 121 rule passes
07-21-2010, 11:36 AM
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You are gonna get better candidates out of this. If it takes 1500 hours to reach an airline cockpit many people will just go do something else, thats a fact, and you can compare similar legislation to other careers and you would get the same result. Just like age 65, this will have a major affect over time.
07-21-2010, 11:41 AM
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You are gonna get better candidates out of this. If it takes 1500 hours to reach an airline cockpit many people will just go do something else, thats a fact, and you can compare similar legislation to other careers and you would get the same result. Just like age 65, this will have a major affect over time.
07-21-2010, 12:19 PM
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Feel good exercise
I don't think this will change the industry much at all. In the early 90's you needed 1500 hours or more to even get an interview. This did not result in a pilot shortage at all. This will not increase wages because there will still be a large number of people who will still take the crappy wages that the 250hr wonder was taking a few years ago. It will also have no impact on safety because even with the 250 hour wonder, planes have not exactly been falling out of the sky. I think this is more of an "illusion of safety" than a really sound solution.
Could not agree more.
I still believe if you don't qualify for an ATP you shouldn't be in an airline cockpit. Period
07-21-2010, 12:25 PM
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I don't think this will change the industry much at all. In the early 90's you needed 1500 hours or more to even get an interview. This did not result in a pilot shortage at all. This will not increase wages because there will still be a large number of people who will still take the crappy wages that the 250hr wonder was taking a few years ago. It will also have no impact on safety because even with the 250 hour wonder, planes have not exactly been falling out of the sky. I think this is more of an "illusion of safety" than a really sound solution.
Could not agree more.
Could not agree more.
07-21-2010, 12:39 PM
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Exactly, my point is that these law changes affect the industry whether people want to believe it or not. I feel 1500 hours will slightly counter the affect of age 65.
Can you imagine if 1500 hours was a requirement back in 06? They would have been hard pressed to find pilots with 1500 hours, hell they were hard pressed to find pilots with 500 hours.
I don't think this will change the industry much at all. In the early 90's you needed 1500 hours or more to even get an interview. This did not result in a pilot shortage at all. This will not increase wages because there will still be a large number of people who will still take the crappy wages that the 250hr wonder was taking a few years ago. It will also have no impact on safety because even with the 250 hour wonder, planes have not exactly been falling out of the sky. I think this is more of an "illusion of safety" than a really sound solution.
Could not agree more.
Could not agree more.
07-21-2010, 12:40 PM
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yes but look at what happened recently....airlines couldn't find enough pilots, hence that is how we got into this pickle
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