I want a rule that says no Financial Analyst will be allowed to work unless they have 7 years experience.
That’ll make my cohort very happy and costly.
Just like Dentists who ensure Hygienists cannot hang a shingle.
Or Lawyers who don’t allow certain legal services without passing the bar.
Or Hairdressers who managed to outlaw black braiding shops without a license that required the licensee to know how to dye a blonde.
Can you say, “Restraint Of Trade?”
I knew you could.
While I welcome the required experience, I dread how this will cause chaos in the schedules pilots will have with companies scrambling to cover a schedule they don’t have pilots for.
Nobody wants to be a pilot these days, but how can you blame them with training costs (which can be easily $100k) skyrocketing, and first year pay at regional carriers below $30k, and in some cases $20k. Even the majors start out at a marginally live able wage.
Foreign carriers?
That is another story...(much better)
Is that 1,500 hour requirement met with any flight experience? Or is it as a commercial pilot? Or is it on a particular type of aircraft?
The FAA, in announcing that the rule will be published soon, said the new requirements were adopted in reaction to the crash of a Colgan Air airplane near Buffalo, N.Y., in 2009, in which both the captain and first officer were relatively inexperienced.
Which would have done zero, nil, zilch for Colgan Air Flt 3407.
Captain Marvin Renslow, age 47, had 3,263 hours, 110 hours in type.
FO Rebecca Lynne Shaw, age 24, had 2,200 hours with 772 hours in type.
This is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing.
With appropriate exceptions for Selected, politically-correct minorities, of course.
I remember United hiring 200-hr Minorities and women from Purdue direct to the right seat in the 90’s, to meet quotas.
How long until the lawsuits begin, since this will CLEARLY be an obstruction-to-entry for Democrat supporters?
This is no change for captains. They always had to have an ATP (1500 hrs) to fly captain for an airline. The change is that newly hired copilots must have 1500. That can be hard to get for a young new pilot, but it can be done. I had 3300 when I got my first airline job at age 26.