Bandit_Driver
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I would wager we will see the FAA add a multi-pilot license to the mix too in the next decade.
FAA Set To Issue Mentoring Rules For Airline Pilots
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Analysts have been yelling this for years: PDF
The industry is crying out for reform and better advancement in training. Every year at WATS (https://www.halldale.com/wats-2016/regional-airline-training-conference-proceedings) a call for a better, comprehensive, performance based training curriculum be implemented. The problem? The industry and the FAA cant do anything without legislative approval.
Just look up the RAA's push for the ACE-R/ATP: PPTX
Data shows what we need to do. From the Pilot Source Study (http://www.pilotsourcestudy.org/ESW/Files/PSS_2015_AABI_Townhall_v12_Locked.pdf) to many 121 training department representatives, to collegiate university studies.
Yet, we have to wait for Congress to "do the right thing".
Autothrust Blue
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Well, that management consultant is blowing smoke/on something that probably would invalidate a medical certificate, and I'm feeling too lazy to use advanced technical means to break that PPT password.
However, there are a bunch of things that need to happen in this business to get not just the supply, but the quality to where it needs to be.
However, there are a bunch of things that need to happen in this business to get not just the supply, but the quality to where it needs to be.
If you click "read only" you can access it.
Autothrust Blue
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Learn something new (that I should probably already know) every day.
Zapphod Beblebrox
Inventor of the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
I have attended conferences like this one. UAA and ABBI are both singing out of the same hymnal. They want to statistically prove that AABI / UAA college aviation graduates are the best suited to be air carrier pilots. They go so far as to require that any pilot in a part 121 job must at least have a bachelors degree. (the 2010 study referenced above)
To say that it is self serving is an understatement. What is not described is what is the training and hourly requirement to get that pilot from a new ABBI graduated pilot with 200/300 hours into the right seat of an RJ. The military requires substantially more training after the candidate has already won his wings. Embry Riddle is the only UAA university with a Jet ATP transition course. The other big schools, UND, WMU, Purdue, Ohio, etc, etc. don't even have that type of program.
No one is talking about a bridge program to get these guys into high performance airplanes and a multi-crew environment. That costs money and that's what the real problem is. Money! You learn to fly a jet in a structured program and no amount of light aircraft time or classroom experience will make up for that. AABI and UAA want a further reduction in hours but they are not covering what needs to happen to that pilot after graduation. That is the problem.
I graduated from WMU a long time ago with 10 hours of multi-engine time, a very wet instrument ticket and was only qualified to fly as an instructor. How do you get that low time guy the training he needs to make the next step? Do you leave it up to him to build time as pilots have always done? Will there be some kind of required professional training as a crew member? That is the real question.
College programs are good but they do not graduate crewmen, just well trained inexperienced light aircraft pilots. The entire civilian training curriculum is based on the private, commercial, instrument, multi-engine foot print. That is not the footprint that creates an airline pilot without a lot of extra stuff added. Like the military there needs to be a follow on system to get these people what they need if you are going to continue to reduce the hourly requirement.
So, we just take their word for it right? Because they're Senators? http://hudsonvalleynewsnetwork.com/2016/10/14/senators-urge-aviation-safety/