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Old 01-11-2017 | 08:07 AM
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Originally Posted by CBreezy
You're drawing an incorrect conclusion. The experience requirement came about because both pilots lacked basic airmanship skills. The Captain swung gear at a pay to play operator until he met basic hiring minimums for the airline. He also had a long list of checkride failures. Both pilots inappropriately reacted to a stall. The Captain didn't add full power while fighting the pusher and the first officer, for whatever reason, retracted the flaps without being prompted and didn't correct the inadequate power application.

The theory behind the hour minimum is it required a pilot to either flight instruct or fly around for a cargo operation long enough to gain valuable experience in both the VFR and IFR systems flying a variety of aircraft in all weather conditions. Is a set minimum of hours adequate? No. There shouldn't be cutouts for specific schools where you learned. Credit should be given, however, for type of experience outside of school, as that is where most of the learning is done.
Absolutely spot on. You don't learn basic airmanship once you start at an airline, YOU MUST LEARN IT BEFORE. The Air France crash down in south america had a 600 hr wonder kid at the controls. When the ******** hit the fan, the inexperienced pilot cause the airplane to stall and kept it stalled for minutes until it hit the ocean, even after all instrumentation came back online. Perhaps 1000 more hrs of flight time would have given him the basic experience required to, first, not pitch up to a 7000fpm climb and stall the airplane, and second, been able to fly the airplane on pitch and power alone.

500 hr pilots normally don't save the day under extreme circumstances but under normal operations, they do a good job.