Originally Posted by
Cubdriver
You would think at a point well above wet-commercial level insurance companies and training costs would set a cost-determined experience minimum. Seeing is believing. I just hope the lack of experience of regional new hires doesn't cost anyone's life. They still have full control of the airplane at times such as late final and when the CA goes to hockey.
Throughout aviation history there have been many more instances of experienced airline pilots having accidents due to complacency than accidents being blamed to inexperience. I honestly can't recall a single one.
1000 hours in a 172 doing touch and goes doesnt really add much to a pilots knowledge base to fly an airliner either. In the modern age of automated RJ's experience really isn't all that important anymore.
SkyHigh