Minimum hiring age for the regionals....

[gliderguider]

very scary if you ask me.
stick and rudder skills can be learned. What scares me is the level of maturity and how well developed their judgement & descision making skills are. Someday they may turn into excellent overall pilots, but that develops over time.
Remember the RJ on a 91 ferryflight that crashed because those to yahoos wanted to go real high and have a little fun? Kids

In Europe low time/young f/o's are common. Over the summer I talked to a Swissair crew who were confused on why I had 1,300 hrs and was still in school instructing. They said when they were my age (19 at the time) they were DC-9 f/o's with 250 hours. And now they are flying A330's trans atlantic. I think it all depends on your training and supervision.

And infiniti757, you should tell your friend to make it a point to get a bachelor's degree somehow, online if he gets a job, but doing a little campus time also wouldn't hurt.

 

[QuasarZ]

I would suggest college as well.. not only is it a good backup, but you will have a great time. I have met so many great friends that I will never forget, and I still have 2.5 years to go.

 

[Midnight Flyer]

Do you fly with many 1000 hour spikey-haired youngsters at Capital Cargo? As an FO? I'm lost.

Not at that company, but I have at another.

 

[infiniti757]

Yeah my friend is getting his bachelors hes about a year and a half from finishing.

 

[Alltheway]

Hes young, do somthing fun in life while you will have the time, college was a blast, traveled half the world and what not.....flying will always be around