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Two years ago, one regional had hiring minimums of 450hrs total time, with 50hrs in multiengine! 1500TT is required for the ATP, 500 of which needs to be cross-country time (flight greater than 50nm from departure point). It takes a couple of years of instructing to approach those hours.

As much as I hate the government making laws that screw with the free market, the public will get more experienced pilots as a result of this one, should it go through.

[NY.SS-Bar9]

I got my ASEL in the 80’s. At the time, I toyed with the idea of working my way up and turning it into a career. Doing a little research, I found out that green FO’s at the time were making under 20k / yr.

A 60% pay cut for a 20k investment in training didn’t make sense - and wouldn’t have made my new wife too happy.

[CharlesWayneCT]

How do the pilots get experience if they have to have experience before they can fly anybody?