What did we get until now.
The aussie way as a hangar rat or the uk way as a military pilot. What I am still missing are ideas to get the civilian world to a higher safety level without taking away opportunities from low time pilots. I think that a complete review of the civilian training system should and could be donne.
The JAR idea to have an ATP as a target isn't such a bad idea. But flight schools shoud consider to run their operation rather like an airline where every training flight has a fligth plan, an objective and so on. By doing this, you would have a much better learning effect and tighter control about the students decision making process. This would mean more work for the instructor, therefore we could think about giving credit for ground school as flight hours to the instructor. Which would motivate them to teach ground school and do effective post- and preflight brefings.
Flight instructors that grow up in a system like this, could be earlier capable to teach effectively. But if a system like this is be successfull, insurance companies should consider to give a low time pilot a chance to do some real work.
Sugestions please, how we could make the training for civilian pilots better, without taking oppotunities away from low time pilots.