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Raise Pilot Standard
A worldwide pilot shortage has caused the regional airlines to lower hiring standards to a dangerous level ("Airlines turn to retirees to help ease pilot shortage,"Today in the Sky, USATODAY.com, Feb 8).
Rather than lowering experience levels, airlines should fallow the basic laws of supply and demand and raise wages.
The Federal Aviation Administration should mandate more experience. A 300 hour pilot may be legal on paper, but I believe he or she lacks the judgment and real-life experience to operate an airliner full of people.
Allowing a pilot to fly who doesn't have many years of experience is analogous to allowing a newly licensed 16-year-old to drive a rig full of explosives.
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