NPRM results released?
06-05-2012, 05:29 PM
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NPRM results released?
The comment period ended a couple months ago, but does anyone know when they will release their amended (if any) ruling for HR5900? Does anyone care to speculate what it will entail? Grandfather, pushed back implementation, lower TT req's, higher TT req's (no exemption) etc, etc? My crystal ball is broken. 
Talking with a lot of buddies at various regionals and it seems their airlines have good plans in place to get the current pilot group all to ATP/1500 hrs before next August, but many have plans to hire (Skywest, Expressjet, Republic) and they are finding it harder and harder to find people with the times now, so they are wondering where the people with the 1500/ATP will be then. Just observations from others.
Any thoughts?
Talking with a lot of buddies at various regionals and it seems their airlines have good plans in place to get the current pilot group all to ATP/1500 hrs before next August, but many have plans to hire (Skywest, Expressjet, Republic) and they are finding it harder and harder to find people with the times now, so they are wondering where the people with the 1500/ATP will be then. Just observations from others.
Any thoughts?
06-05-2012, 06:16 PM
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The comment period ended a couple months ago, but does anyone know when they will release their amended (if any) ruling for HR5900? Does anyone care to speculate what it will entail? Grandfather, pushed back implementation, lower TT req's, higher TT req's (no exemption) etc, etc? My crystal ball is broken.
Talking with a lot of buddies at various regionals and it seems their airlines have good plans in place to get the current pilot group all to ATP/1500 hrs before next August, but many have plans to hire (Skywest, Expressjet, Republic) and they are finding it harder and harder to find people with the times now, so they are wondering where the people with the 1500/ATP will be then. Just observations from others.
Any thoughts?
Talking with a lot of buddies at various regionals and it seems their airlines have good plans in place to get the current pilot group all to ATP/1500 hrs before next August, but many have plans to hire (Skywest, Expressjet, Republic) and they are finding it harder and harder to find people with the times now, so they are wondering where the people with the 1500/ATP will be then. Just observations from others.
Any thoughts?
06-05-2012, 06:31 PM
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06-06-2012, 01:48 AM
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06-06-2012, 02:55 AM
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I'm not against the ATP thing but this could have some unintended consequences. It's not like people are just going to go out and buy 1500 hours of time and the appropriate amount of M/E time to get an ATP and there aren't really enough of the right kind of jobs to build that time with either. There may be enough folks out there floating around right now but in a couple years it could be very, very difficult to find adequate numbers of pilots. That's when the majors will start to care.
06-06-2012, 03:38 AM
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Hiring at majors or contract 'regional' carriers isn't the issue. There will be an issue finding enough bodies starting in about a year or two regardless of what kind of airline it is.
We'll see. I hate to use the word "shortage" because everyone knows how that works but the current system will not produce nearly as many ATP qualified pilots as the number of pilots reaching retirement starting this december. The majors can cherry pick from the regionals but the regionals will have no pool of qualified, legal pilots.
I see a problem starting in about 18 months.
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