Originally Posted by
rickair7777
2. A shortage of quality pilots resulting in multiple colgan style accidents attributable to poor pilot performance *might* cause congress to end the regional system (ie ban outsourcing or require significantly more experience and screening for CA's. In the recent past regionals which committed high-profile accidents have been quietly euthanized.
Interesting that you said this. I'm seeing a lot of people going through the flight training process and later, become CFIs but they barely know enough to be competent. Further, they really show no desire to be CFIs and are basically using their students for flight time. I've seen CFIs take people flying in really adverse weather just to grab 0.7 on an intro flight. It makes me wonder if sooner or later, we'll get a CA/FO pairing with sufficiently low experience to see a Colgan 3407 again.
Any idea what the policy is for matching low time CA/FO? How low is low? Based on what I've seen in the past couple of years, I've started avoiding flying on regional airlines at all costs.