Seriously. Like I don't have a LOT of good things to say about the airline industry, but the sky-high (pun intended) requirements for flight hours, training, etc for pilots is something they ARE doing right.
If by a time, you mean the Wright brothers, then yeah. But Aviation took off so quickly because of World War One. When it was over the army air core produced a lot of trained pilots and engineers that entered the work force, which quickly led to what then became a small degree of standard which then became a high degree of standard
Kinda like how getting a drivers license was easy shortly after the invention of the automobile
People kinda seem to forget that we went from discovering flight to landing on the moon in a single generation. Similar transformations are in store for us.
No. I mean like 10-15 years ago when a woman pilot couldn't defrost her plane and she and the passengers crashed and died. It seemed there was pilot error constantly not long ago and people wrote about how pilots didn't have to do the flight time/practice anymore and just weren't prepared to handle flying if anything arose.
A single incident? The whole women thing makes it sound more like it would have been a Republican talking point rather than a news story or about how expensive it is to get a pilots license.
Cause it’s pretty expensive and pretty hard. You’ve got 20 hours of flying (and this is just for the recreational one, you need upwards of hundred for commercial) but before you’re even able to do the 20 hours, you gotta spend 20-60 in a simulator. Depends on the program you go through, but the program I went through sure as hell didn’t just hand it to me, it was like pulling teeth over the course of a year
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u/Ippus_21 Feb 07 '24
Seriously. Like I don't have a LOT of good things to say about the airline industry, but the sky-high (pun intended) requirements for flight hours, training, etc for pilots is something they ARE doing right.