Originally Posted by NE_Pilot
in Europe especially you can get hired with much lower times than in America, the JAA certificate is harder to get than the FAA certificate (from what I hear), but that does not make up for expierence that comes with hours of flying.
If that were true we should see a much higher accident rate with [some] US regional carriers...but we don't. There must be something else as a contributing factor other than pilot experience.