Old 06-28-2011 | 04:37 PM
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This is beyond pathetic and borders on ignorantly offensive.
Educate yourself-
NOT ONE part 121 operator has had afatality under a crew with less than 1500 hours.
The statistical "Danger zone" for part 121 come at 7,000 hours when the PIC gets complacent and thinks he's gods gift to the skies.
Low time crews are still scared s---less of making a mistake that'll cost them their lives or their jobs.
If you want safer pilots, stop looking at the logbooks and start looking at the training departments. MOST do a (darn) good job. Some dont.
If you want safer pilots, stop protecting those who make dumba$$ mistakes that somehow dont get anybody killed but dont have any consequences to the pilot because his seniority makes him untouchable.
If you want safer pilots, STOP trying to close the gates on the reinforcements. The statistics (not the schools) are showing a virtually disasterous shortage of pilots in the pipeline. If you advocate increasing the arbitrary numbers to determin who gets to run the radios in your cockpit, then you reduce that increadibly shallow pool considerably.
Yeah,low times pilots can be morons and/or arseholes....thats is what the interview, the training, and the probation period are supposed to weed out.
The ONLY thing the log book shows you....is that someone can write.
The ONLY thing possession of an ATP rating shows you is that the named person can pass a test. News flash...every single 121 fatality....HAD AN ATP in the cockpit! They didnt strip off their shirt, unfirrel their cape, and rescue everyone. Cuz the letters on the card dont make you a superhero.
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