This time around, the lobbyists are trying to weaken pilot experience requirements by seeking super credits for certain training experiences and, in so doing, substantially lower the number of actual pilot flying hours required. This subterfuge is trotted out as a way of achieving their goal of cheapening and quickening flight training without appearing to lower the total 1,500 hours required. But with super credits, the total flight hours would be much less, as much as 50% less. If we were trying to provide more physicians to serve rural areas, would we suggest that the answer would be to cut medical school in half from four years to two years? No! We’d say that would be crazy — because it is crazy.
My late older brother, who got his pilot’s license ai age 16 and went to get a multi-engine rating, an instructor’s rating, an instrument rating, a commercial rating, and became an aircraft an engine mechanic told me years ago that the standards for instruction had bee dangerously lowered.
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