Originally Posted by
SonicFlyer
The other side of that is that now regionals are so desperate to hire pilots they will hire anyone with 1500 hours who can fog a mirror. It actually makes us LESS safe because now pilots who they probably wouldn't have hired in the past are now being hired.
No, they would have hired them anyway. Just with 190 hours instead of 1500.
1500 hours won't fix everybody, but it will make a lot of pilots more cognizant of their own mortality.