Originally Posted by
CBreezy
Red herring argument. You should have a full compliment of skills and experience when you get to your first airline. The experience you gain at an airline is how to manage systems, flight crews and the operation. Watching the Captain manage the autopilot during mostly CAVOK days does not help gain experience recovering from stalls or other low energy states. You do not and should not have any doubt how to do steep turns, slow flight or stall recoveries. That EXPERIENCE to hardcode those basic airmanship skills is gained in the 1250 hours after the commercial and before you get hired at an airline.
In addition every pilot should be required to have a full aerobatic training course up to about the skill level of an IAC sportsmans sequence. And in particular should be required to complete a full aerobatic emergency maneuvers training course with a complete spin recovery series. Normal spins, inverted spins, cross over spins and flat spins, upright and inverted.
If we want to address the problem that is the answer. An extra 1250 hours of touch and goes does little to address the issue that caused the Colgan crash.