how easily we forget how inexperienced we all once were. we all need to remember ioe in your first jet or turbo-prop job as well as the month after. If you tell me you were on the ball 100% of the time and werent overwhelmed then you had a lot of experience or are full of it. Maybe labeling this guy as a 250 hour wonder was incorrect but most regional fo's nowadays have been in the right seat less then a year and most are upgrading prior to the 2 yr mark (i am guessing but that sounds about right). If you are going to call a 1 yr fo and a 2 yr captain experienced.... i think a lot of past airline pilots would laugh in your face. SUre we can do a good job and we made it to our position but we are lacking the years of experience our predecessors had to refine the art of doing this job. This is the first time in history ( past few years) that a significant amount of two year seniority captains have taken to the skies AND low time pilots have gotten hired at some of the nations busiest airports. Things like this are bound to happen and not because of one person who was hired with minimal time. We all are inexperienced nowadays. Regional airlines arent flying to podunk airports and back to one hub anymore. We are flying many of the same routes the majors fly from one airlines hub to another.