Originally Posted by
Andy
IF you'd take the time to research it, you'd know that the rule came about as one of the measures to improve safety in the airline industry. The accident rate was through the roof when the FAA came into existance.
Like it or not, the safety measures implemented by the FAA lowered the commercial aviation accident rate.
If you check the number of major airline accidents for the first 20 years the FAA was in existance you will probably there were as many accidents in each year than we have had in the last ten years. Why? A great deal has to do with the experience level in the cockpit. Now you still advocate kicking the most experienced out, good that the FAA no longer holds that view.