very much doubt the US Authorities are going to introduce legislation that is easily circumvented by a technicality on a licence issue.
Are you kidding? That's pretty much the purpose of Congress these days...to create legislation that allows businesses to circumvent the laws set in place for the common people.
@$$es like Bryan Bedford and his colleagues sit down and plan these types of things. They would rather spend a hundred million dollars on ways to keep pilot salaries low than to just use that money to fire qualified pilots.
nobody wants to pay 150K+ for a degree and a job that starts at 30K.
haha....yeah...they do....good marketing and silly dreams.
I read that the US military is being cut drastically by Obama and that will likely reduce flight time among the military aviators in the States
One thing about the US is no one will drastically cut the military...no matter who is president (he doesn't have that power anyway). You will only hear banter from both sides about it but the reality is military funding just gets shifted from one area to another depending on which corrupt politicians get elected and who their wealthy friends are in the defense industry or where bases are located.
The military flying is being cut back because it's shifting heavily to UAVs and most US military pilots these days never actually log any flight time.
I think the real lesson here is to get out of the airline industry and get into the pilot training industry!!
