Let's make our Profession prestigious again
In order to save our profession, I suggest that we start with increasing the difficulty of the ATPL schooling. First thing to do is the elimination of the Question Bank. Any fool can nowadays learn the answers by heart and get a licence. Increase the difficulty level of several subjects, eg. Principles of flight, Performance, Meteorology and Aircraft General Knowledge. Put an Aerobatics course back in the flight-syllabus.
We also need to start to better assess potential ATPL students on their coordination, mathematics, physics etc. Just as happened 15 years ago.
The profession of an Airline pilot has always been seen as highly skilled and was regarded as prestigeous. over the last few years we have let this devellop into being glorified bus drivers. I say NO MORE.
In Spain, pilots with 1500h (unfrozen ATPL) are considered Engineers with a University Degree. This is our aim.