ATP Final Rule Signed

So if I go to take the ATP written before July 31st 2014, I do NOT need 1500 hours, 200 XC and so on... but if I take it after July 31 2014, I DO need the 1500 hours and other requirements?
 
Dan208B said:
I understand the concept here, but it also frustrates me. I failed miserably at the first 2 years of college. I even failed 2 classes completely. I had poor study habits and didn't care that much. I then realized this was not to my benefit. I picked it up and got almost a 4.0 from there forward, however the damage was done and my GPA suffered largely from it. I have all the normal ratings, and have been through 4 airline training programs, as well as multiple recurrents. I have never failed a checkride or had poor performance during any of my training, both for ratings and jobs. Again, I understand the desire of airlines to look at GPA, but I'd hope they'd take actual performance in the field into account as well (at least in training for the field) because I like to think I could bring just as much to an airline as a guy with a 4.0 GPA that has never been through a training program. It is my own fault my GPA is low, but no matter how much I'd like to, I have yet to figure out how to change who I used to be!
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I generally have a problem with evaluating people based on anything that occurred more than 2 or 3 years ago. People change -sometimes incredibly drastically - in short periods of time. If I evaluate someone, I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt. GPA is nonsense in a lot of ways. I'd much rather hire a guy who did his degree in his mid thirties while supporting a family and managed to pass than a guy who was in his late teens, early twenties and didn't have any real responsibilities in his life. What's says more about someone's character, passing with an A when you don't have anything important in your life to do but your education, or the guy who gets a 2.3 GPA while raising a family?
 
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