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Re:Airlines lobbying FAA to have only one pilot in the cockpit by willnonya on Saturday December 10, 2022 @08:38PM (#33939076)
This is the source of the current shortage. It is much more time consuming and expensive just to become a commercial pilot now. This has completely disrupted the progression and training in the pipeline and will not be alleviated by halving the pilot requirements.

When this flight hour change runs head first into a large number of pilots retiring the entire industry is going to be in a state of emergency.

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Re:Airlines lobbying FAA to have only one pilot in the cockpit by bombcar on Sunday December 11, 2022 @08:01AM (#33942792)
We solve that by going to war; the military is perfectly fine sticking a 19 year old with 20 hours of stick time behind the controls of a supply plane.

And when the war is over we have a glut of pilots.

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