Pilots Could Learn from Doctors
The problem with the piloting profession is we are too nice. We should be drumming people out - especially earlier on. Doctors do this as do lawyers.
Air forces do this as do respectable (read: NOT FOR PROFIT) aviation colleges. Involuntary dropping...sorry kid, but you just don't have what it takes not to kill yourself and others.
Unfortunately we let the my daddy has 100k to pay for my aviation training types rule and profit centers and greedy airlines let them get away with it. Modern aviation has so many checks and balances that we can get away with it for the most part till the Chinese put another one in the side of a hill somewhere.
1500 hrs in the US is right on, and the US should now be pressuring ICAO countries to do the same...that will be safer for aviation, and better for the piloting profession than stupid things like line up and wait phraseolgy.