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The article says Southwest has 10.000 737 pilots. Let's say all of them will be trained. The article also says that simulator training costs 0.5-1K USD per hour
by laydn 7y ago
The article says Southwest has 10.000 737 pilots. Let's say all of them will be trained. The article also says that simulator training costs 0.5-1K USD per hour. Let's take the higher figure. So that means 5M USD per hour training for all pilots (two pilots per simulator). Let's then speculate and say that the FAA approved training package is 10 hours (I believe this will turn out to be less than 3).
We're looking at 50M USD cost of training pilots for the MAX, for an airline which ordered almost 300 MAX planes.
That is less than 200K USD per plane. It is depressing that this was being weighed against loss of human life.
- donarb 7y agoThere's other costs as well. An untrained pilot can't fly, meaning that the airline is shorthanded. If you don't have enough trained pilots, you have to cancel flights and lose revenue.