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FAA considering raising the bar for airline pilots
FAA Monday proposed to substantially raise the qualification requirements for first officers who fly for U.S. passenger and cargo airlines (www.aviationnews.net) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
What kind of training will my son get tooling around in a 172 for hundreds of hours. Sure, being a CFI helps him to develop critical thinking skills and decision making. But he needs to be in an aircraft flying with a sesasoned veteran learning how to navigate weather, icing and TRW, emergency procedure, CRM, etc. The training environment should be as a resident in a hospital surgical suite. The resident assists, watches and learns, then does the procedure with the watchful eye of the surgeon, then is released to do it himself. That is how confidence and experience are gained. Real world expereience is what is necessary.
There really will be a pilot shortage after this gets rolled in and a wave of retirements hit.
Google Captain Jacob Van Zanten. Then tell me how much experience is enough?
Well, Van Zanten was certainly well experienced. They have blamed Tenarife on hetrodyne, fog, and everything else, but buried deep in the report is his high/mighty attitude and constant harangue of the controllers to get them out of there as the fog lifted. He was KLM's fair haired boy and he knew it. Wiki calls him introverted but that is being nice and an understatement. KLM pilots called him a kiss ass and royal prick.
yes the thing we all need to understand is that were all human we all make mistakes. The families from the buffalo accident do have my sympathy without a doubt but with all the car crashes why dont we have to be 23 to drive? some states dont even make people take drivers ed anymore! i feel like people blow aircraft accidents out of proportion. they are sad and we should be safe but as long as man flies man WILL make mistakes. fact of life.
Getting the IR before the PPL in it's own way really does make better sense.