Babbit Selling out On the 1500 Min Hire Rule....

[samballs]

Once Alpa always Alpa

 

[tie1on]

babbit is an A$$ kissing piece of S*** he has caved on everythng. check his record. randy is in this for himself.

 

[samballs]

He'll probably get a car if he caves, seems most (mec's) do when they side with mang

 

[Raoul Duke]

there is no reason to go to 1500, it is much more important to focus on the quality of the training received at the regional level

 

[regionaltard]

Not the first time Babbitt's been spotted on his knees under management's desk.

 

[Draginass]

A 200 hour wonder has no business being in the right seat of a commercial airliner, PERIOD!


But he or she can fly a high performance jet or a large transport in the military to defend your freedoms? I am not ex or present military!

New military pilots receive much better training generally than civil pilots. Also, new military pilots are very closely supervised and mentored during their professional development in a close knit squadron environment.

New civil pilots are trainined/qualified, then thrown out into a very impersonal system where they are passed from crew to crew with little/no coherent consistent supervision.

With regards to the FAA, it looks as if our new administrator is following the lead of his long line of kneepad-wearers and is caving on real reform of this pathetic industry and is going to do another eyewash job.

 

[Mikes Apartment]

there is no reason to go to 1500, it is much more important to focus on the quality of the training received at the regional level

So going by that logic why do captains need 1500 hours? Why don't we drop that as well?

The point of making 1500 hours and an ATP the minimum is so everyone has more confidence that BOTH pilots know what the ******************** they're doing.

 

[ualdriver]

For pete's sake guys, will ya just wait before you hang the guy? This legislation still has to work it ways through the halls of Congress, and undoubtedly there will be changes there as well. Then the FAA is going to be going down its own path concurrently. Let's see what they come up with, then we'll hang 'em

 

[PCL_128]

Babbitt has been a sell-out for years. He sat on management's side of the bargaining table at Pinnacle during contract negotiations as a "consultant."

Still, even as a sell-out, it's better to have him there in that position rather than some lawyer or politician.

 

[Candide]

A 200 hour wonder has no business being in the right seat of a commercial airliner, PERIOD!


But he or she can fly a high performance jet or a large transport in the military to defend your freedoms? I am not ex or present military!

Apples and oranges, my friend.

A 200 hour military pilot has just participated in a training program in which he was a hunted animal, not a valued customer. Also, he's probably still in flight training (FRS, etc.), and if not is very closely monitored by personal-attention squadron standardization and training program (extremely unprofitable--lucky the military isn't in the business of making money).