Life in the Sixties
For those of us, the old experienced aviators, retired or soon to be,
should remember that the minimum flight time required by most of the
US airlines at the time( 1965- 1968) was a Commercial Lic. with an Instrument rating.
(read 180 hrs. SEL, inst. rating)
In fact some of the majors hired zero time pilots.
The Administrator was hired at the Wings of Man in the same period
as myself. I know I was an FLAP (F****** light airplane pilot) and I
believe he was of the same experience level.