Originally Posted by
jayray2
In regards to the Colgan crash, one has to wonder if this accident would of happened if they were HIRED with more than 300 hours. If these pilots had instructed until they had 1000 hours and did stall after stall with students would they have correctly recovered out of the stall? It is a possibility. They skipped out on the FOI Law of Exercise by not getting to practice basic maneuvers.
I'm no NTSB investigator, nor a 7000 hour pilot. But given the circumstances of the Colgan crash, it not only was a stall, but a tailplane stall. At least in my opinion. Yes, 800 hours of practice area/traffic pattern flying may teach you to lower the nose and increase power in a stall. But when in your training are you taught to raise the nose and decrease power in a tailplane stall. The symptoms are exactly the same, but recovery is completely opposite. Therefor you have to decide which kind of stall you are in with two seconds. Perhaps the captain picked the wrong recovery which lead to very fatal results. Could 2-3000 TT have prevented this? I think not...