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Re:Jeju Air accident in South Korea kills at least 47 by AYBABTME on Sunday December 29, 2024 @03:08AM (#42538452)
Are you taking that number out of your arsenal or from a source? AFAIK most South Korean pilots are actually doing their training in the US, since it's much easier to accumulate the hours, and there's more GA. I would think their training is about the same as US pilots.

Although the US airways system is much more developed and used than Korea's, given that Korea is a smaller country and has an extensive bullet-train network. So I could buy an argument where US pilots just fly more.

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Re:Jeju Air accident in South Korea kills at least 47 by cjbprime on Sunday December 29, 2024 @03:55AM (#42538649)
You should probably apologize for the suggestion that I am making up numbers.

The US FAA has required 1500 flight hours to receive an ATP (airline pilot) certificate since 2010: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-D...

South Korea requires 250 hours as a country (6x), and Jeju Air specifically requires 300 (5x): https://epicflightacademy.com/hiring-requirements-jeju-air/#...)

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Re:Jeju Air accident in South Korea kills at least 47 by AYBABTME on Sunday December 29, 2024 @04:28AM (#42538820)
Oh sure, I do apologize, just wanted to know if the numbers came from somewhere or if they were a wild guess. Thanks for bringing up the references.

The difference is drastic indeed. I almost would qualify for Jeju Air.

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Re:Jeju Air accident in South Korea kills at least 47 by seanmcdirmid on Sunday December 29, 2024 @03:15AM (#42538476)
Most flights in Korea are international flights, so a pilot for Korean air probably flies as much as a pilot in the states. If the airlines need fewer flights, they could just go with fewer pilots rather than the same number of pilots flying less.

In the 1990s Korea and Taiwan had issues with accidents caused by military pilots without modern crew management cultures (“never question the captain”, which is a big no in modern commercial aviation), so they went with more career pilots trained from scratch (at American schools) rather than just transitioning military pilots into the role.

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