Originally Posted by
hypoxia
I've flown with 300 hour pilots that are excellent and have wonderful potential and flown with 10000 hour pilots that are outright dangerous! Where are the evidenced based studies showing an ATP pilot enhanced safety? It was a move by congress to create an illusion that the industry is safer.... We still have folks making poor wages and commuting all night because they can't afford to live where they are domiciled! In regArds to part 91 my comments were addressed to the arrogant assumption that the 91 corporate will be a resource for regional airlines! Some of the reasons were mentioned the big one being pay! Yes it comes down to money!
Great, now you are the CEO for ABC Airlines. The hiring department has just presented you with a plan that they will get approved and signed off by insurance if you approve and sign off. To accurately assess interviewees, this will take approximately 8hrs of sim time to thoroughly evaluate and see how the applicant will do in a 2-crew environment, with various scenarios, basic skills, advanced stuff, a real "gauntlet" to see how good they really are. This will require a contract with a local Flight Safety or sim provider, and the contract will cost 10 million a year, since we won't be washing out people that have very few hours, so we'll be putting lots of people through.
Does this make sense at all? Of course not. Does 1500hrs guarantee anything? Yes, more experience. It doesn't guarentee skills, but it does guarantee a higher average level and even though there are 200hr wonders, it's not cost effective to seek them out.