The important thing to remember is that the rules are changing for a reason. The line had to be drawn. And by the way it needed to be moved to a more acceptable place. If regional airlines and truly motivated people did the right thing the govmt wouldn't have to step in and regulate it. Seems like when people get themselves in trouble by not doing the right thing, the regulation put in place to protect those people from doing it again can be somewhat overkill.

Bottom line is that the rule isn't going to be scaled back for you as the pilot because it's a little more challenging (not impossible) to build your experience.

Next thing you know you will have some heart issues that need to be addressed by surgery. You go looking for a good guy to do it and find that the success rate has fallen substantially because the surgeons were less experienced because they had trouble finding work initially. So the hospitals just felt bad for the guys and needed some peeps to fill in lowering their standards of the practice.

Hmmm...........sounds like a crappy scenario either way for some.