Enhanced Pilot Experience Standards for Safer Commercial Air Travel.
This law aims to boost airline passenger safety by significantly increasing the required real-world flight experience for commercial pilots. Following a series of near-miss incidents, pilots seeking top licenses must log substantially more hours in challenging conditions, such as night flying and instrument weather. This ensures that commercial aircraft are operated by pilots with proven, extensive operational experience.
Key points
The total minimum requirement of 1,500 flight hours for airline pilots remains, but the quality and type of operational experience are strictly enhanced.
Pilots must now log significantly more hours in difficult operational conditions, including a minimum of 900 hours of cross-country flight time and 200 hours of night flight time.
Stricter standards are mandated for flight simulators, requiring advanced technology (like 6 degrees of freedom motion) to ensure realistic training for recovering from dangerous flight situations.
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