Originally Posted by
UPSierra
This is the dirty little secret that no one wants to talk about. If pilots are truly interested in safety, they would not be exceeding duty limits (if you consider their commute).

No. The dirty little secret is the FAA is too corrupt to actually make shoddy regionals like Colgan and Gulfstream fire a pilot who failed 7 checkrides throughout his history. They refuse to enforce respectable training just because better qualified pilots don't want to work under the crappy pay and conditions provided by regionals. When a regional flying 70 seat turboprops in the Northeast requires nothing more then a paper commercial certificate with ink that hasn't even dried yet, something is wrong.