Originally Posted by
stabapch
Regardless, somebody came up with 1500 to get an ATP. The point being is that they blamed the crash on inexperienced pilots. This wasn’t the case if were classifying experience as logbook TT. Under the new legislation, both of these pilots were qualified based on hours. If they were trying to justify lack of experience as the problem, maybe the ATP mins should have been raised to 5000..
So what do you think the minimums should be? Wet commercial to serve SIC? Leave it up to the Airlines themselves? So the next time they have trouble filling classes, instead of raising wages like they should they just keep lowering the hiring standards until they can?
As another poster already mentioned, the copilot got hired at around 700 hours. Perhaps if she had 1500 hours of experience stalling a 172 20 times a day with students before falling into the automation and routine of the Part 121 world, her first reaction wouldn't have been to retract the flaps when the shaker went off.
If anything, the 1500 rule prevents the Regionals from lowering their hiring standards to dangerous levels just so they can keep paying peanuts to their pilots. That's a very good thing.