What you people fail to understand is that the reason there are so many accident prone pilots in commercial aviation is due to the old school method of issuing pilot licenses to people that were not properly educated.
Before these new licensing rules were figured out the training industry only churned out a flood of new pilots who were ignorant of how to safely fly an airplane because they could be almost illiterate and still be given a commercial pilot license. The only criteria required was they could read and write and had been taught how to manually operate the machine well enough to demonstrate they could get it in the air and back down on the ground without wrecking it.
Fortunately the regulator now has people in positions of power who have figured out the training system they had in place generation after generation had bee focused on the wrong thing......teaching semi illiterate people to manually control an airplane has resulted in an unacceptable high accident rate.
So in my opinion the new requirements are a step in the right direction, sadly their ground school requirement of only 750 hours is way to low.
What is really needed is schooling to at least a Masters Degree in aviation but preferably a Doctorate of Aviation would finally solve this flood of inept pilots that we see in the market place today.
It would be a win, win for everybody with the new focus on ground school and less flying we would have less green house gases and a cleaner planet for our children to procreate in and thus supply more worker bees for the regulator to expand bigger and bigger until we finally have heaven on earth.....no more waiting for the second coming of Christ.
Then not only would we have safety in aviation but the pay would go up to the point pilots would not have to rely on food stamps to eat.
Last edited by Chuck Ellsworth; 24th February 2014 at 16:50.