742 excellent point not to mention your average CFI having done several thousand circling approaches to low mins is pretty sharp at 1500---your post is what I'm talking about
in the old days an airmail pilot was considered a veteran after 200hrs ---for a good reason the death rate was 1/4
those who want to bypass all of that valuable learning experience or are in so much of a rush to wear a uniform to get paid like crap just to impress others--- is a product of the modern world where knowledge/abilty does not count only the abilty to answer 50 conflict resolution question as if the FD were some muppety corporate office filled with mindless brown nosing idiots--and look what that type of 'high self esteem individual' did on the useless grounfd WRT the economy---you want to impress me with low hours---- become an unlimited aerobatic champion, otherwise save it for someone who believes this nonsense