Republic letter to Pilots

Gonzo said:
The 1500 hour rule is stupid, that is what happens when airlines can't police themselfs. The 1500 hour rule still doesn't fix the problem, mainline hires the person regionals hire the logbook. Now the logbook just has to have 1500 doesn't mean it is a good hire.
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True. Now the regional's will just hire anyone with 1500. I am someone with only 1100 tt but I have over 600 of jet and turboprop time but I am less qualified to fly a jet than a guy with 1500 hours of flying divers and mapping. Too much black and white.
 
Box hauler said:
True. Now the regional's will just hire anyone with 1500. I am someone with only 1100 tt but I have over 600 of jet and turboprop time but I am less qualified to fly a jet than a guy with 1500 hours of flying divers and mapping. Too much black and white.
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Quality, not quantity.

I keep saying it, but for some reason congress and the faa won't listen to me.
 
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Think they're in reverse order here but y'all get the idea.


Edit: via Stop the Whipsaw FB page
 
mojo6911 said:
You need to draw the line somewhere. 250 hours for a commercial is just as arbitrary. As a guy with nearly 3200 of dual given, I can say that I was a much better pilot at 1500 hours than I was at 250 hours. If you aren't learning and improving, you aren't doing it right.
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I agree the more hours you have the better pilot you become because you see more things, but a hack at 250 is more than likely still going to be a hack at 1,500 and at 2,000 and for as long as he flies. The guy who cares and learns as much as he can will be a better pilot at a few hundred hours than the hack will ever be. This is yet another reason I hate flows, the hack gets to get a mainline job he/she couldn't never get on their own because more than likely he was hired because of his log book.
 
I would have liked to see something included where the person needs to have a certain amount of time where the work has to fly, and having students wouldn't count. I don't care if it's flying radioactive dog feces or people for an EAS company. The level of decision making changes when there's a set schedule involved, and taking away the option to cancel a students lesson if it's less than 5sm/3000ft.

I dunno, I guess it blows my mind when I goto a place and have more time in actual IMC than another person has total multi time.
 
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