Originally Posted by
Duksrule
I think all people who preach/demand the 1500hr ATP for a regional FO should put the number of hours they had at the time they were first hired to fly in their signature. I would bet that there are a lot that got hired with far less than 1500 hours and are now against the very conditions under which they got hired.
Maybe because they now realize what little they knew back in the day of low time when they thought they knew everything too. I mean, in your many years of military service, don't you look back on certain things and realize how little you knew about what was going on when you first started and after many more years of living the dream you realize how many more factors were at play in the decisions being made?
Maybe it is that very experience that now colors their perceptions. Actually quite a few on this thread have even said [I didn't know what I didnt know].
My memory may be slipping but I don't remember aircraft just falling out of the sky a few years ago when people were getting jobs with a wet COM. Oh and if you go to a 141 school they didn't have 250 hours either, it was much less.
That doesn't answer the question of how many times things might have gone wrong or nearly went wrong except for someone catching something. If you are only basing your argument on mishap statistics, and not what is REALLY going on in the cockpit which is being shared with you in stories and experiences ith CA flying with some of these people then not much can be siad to convince you otherwise.
Hours don't make the pilot. The type of hours make the pilot.
A healthy combination of BOTH makes the pilot.
csh405:
Incidentally lets remember both pilots in the Colgan crash (what started this campaign) had well above ATP minimums but still couldn't react to a stall properly...
That point has been well debated even in this thread.
USMCFLYR