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Globally Challenged
The US has a huge GA industry to facilitate hour building - where do you propose that EU airlines would source crew with 1500 hours?
stop taxing and regulating yourselves out of GA. Flight instructing is a fantastic way of achieving experience. You’re essentially a Captain early in your career, you actually practice the knowledge that you learned, you learn to work with a variety of personalities in the cockpit, you learn leadership and decision making and time management skills. It’s too bad that Europe ruined GA, but it’s your bed, you lay in it. I’ve flown with 755 hour P2F cadets. They didn’t pay their dues through instructing, they didn’t interview for their “job” and they have a sense of accomplishment for accomplishing nothing that was earned. Obviously, this stereotype doesn’t apply to all folks who went through a P2F program, but it certainly is not the desired path. Additionally, people from this low time background were the quickest to criticize and tell you how it was done at their previous “job” and how much better it was. If it was so good there, why didn’t they hire you or why didn’t you start after your paid “internship”?