Bonchie
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Came across this YouTube video from what I gather is a popular content creator. It's basically all the reasons the 1500-hour rule is "ridiculous."
And while he makes some good points about financial burden, I’m not sure that applies to getting time post training (I.e. paid) anyway.
Call me a stick in the mud, but I just don't agree anymore. At 250 hours, you don't know what you don't know, and I look back at how crappy of a pilot I actually was back then (at the time, I thought I was great, of course) and I'm glad the system made me gain the experience I now have.
Too many people dismiss instructing as just repetitive hole boring, but I learned a ton and became a way more proficient, confident flyer. Teaching really does teach you a ton.
I’ve done several commercial students through their checkride and I didn’t have one that was so amazing I thought they didn’t need to build time after that.
I'm not saying the 1500-hour mark itself means a lot as far as judging competency, but certainly, I learned a lot up to 1000 hour mark at least. At that point, I'd agree some plateauing occurs as you just grind the rest out, but then you've only got half a year or so left of you are time-building, and that time will be spent trying to get interviews and carrying them out anyway.
Regardless, I see all the low-time pilots in the comments of that video insisting they should be put in the right seat of a jet and I roll my eyes, both because of how naive they are and because that would have been me saying the same thing. Kind of a nice wake-up call to never think you know more than you do, even in the place you are now.
And while he makes some good points about financial burden, I’m not sure that applies to getting time post training (I.e. paid) anyway.
Call me a stick in the mud, but I just don't agree anymore. At 250 hours, you don't know what you don't know, and I look back at how crappy of a pilot I actually was back then (at the time, I thought I was great, of course) and I'm glad the system made me gain the experience I now have.
Too many people dismiss instructing as just repetitive hole boring, but I learned a ton and became a way more proficient, confident flyer. Teaching really does teach you a ton.
I’ve done several commercial students through their checkride and I didn’t have one that was so amazing I thought they didn’t need to build time after that.
I'm not saying the 1500-hour mark itself means a lot as far as judging competency, but certainly, I learned a lot up to 1000 hour mark at least. At that point, I'd agree some plateauing occurs as you just grind the rest out, but then you've only got half a year or so left of you are time-building, and that time will be spent trying to get interviews and carrying them out anyway.
Regardless, I see all the low-time pilots in the comments of that video insisting they should be put in the right seat of a jet and I roll my eyes, both because of how naive they are and because that would have been me saying the same thing. Kind of a nice wake-up call to never think you know more than you do, even in the place you are now.
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