What is your insistence on this AABI? He said internal hiring data, not some paid study. And yes he has seen the hiring data.
Put facts down on the table and you guys start flaming away from left field. Tell single pilot 135 guys that statistically they have the hardest time in training the forums are ready to execute you.
This study was most certainly a paid study. It was not really internal.
This AABI is who paid for (and assisted in the production of) the "internal" study. You already know that, right? Cause you read the results of the study, right? I'm betting neither of you have seen the actual data. I know I haven't. I have seen the results that those that have a financial stake in the outcome want me to see. Follow the money. Please read this link. You didn't read the last one very carefully, if at all.
Here is more about the study:
http://www.aabi.aero/2010 04 10 Pilot Source Study Summary v02.pdf
I am not arguing that graduates of an aviation training regime from a college program don't have an easier time with training in the 121 world. They do require less retraining. So do flight instructors. Statistically, flight instructing had as big an impact in trainability as having your training done through a college program. I don't know how much more of a difficult time the people from various backgrounds have. Neither do you, unless you have access to the actual data. I am betting it is not much, or airlines would not hire anyone but AABI grads.
I find it ridiculous that the government is going to give the big schools an advantage over FBO's when it comes to being able to work for the airlines. The question the study asked was whether the pilots from AABI schools were more trainable. Not whether or not they were safer. IF the AABI schools students are so much easier to train, let that be their advantage in the hiring process. Giving them 33% off of their hourly requirements is wrong. Unless you are going to extend that courtesy to all flight instructors as well.
1500 hours should be the mins for everyone.......Military, Flight Instructor, ABBI grad or not.
I agree with everything ASA aviator wrote except that structured program guys are better. They may require less training, but that does not make them better pilots.
