Originally Posted by
Jdub2
Renslow was hired at Colgan with 618 total time. Ergo, the ATP rule would have precluded his being hired at Colgan. Had he been subjected to the ATP rule, he would have needed close to 900 more hours. He would have had many more opportunities to learn and command a smaller aircraft before commanding a transport category aircraft. Even if he resisted learning anything from CFI'ing those 900 hours, it would have provided more opportunity to stall in real life.
There's a lot you can learn in 1500 hours. And again, even if you don't learn, it provides a lot of chances for idiots to be selected out of this career. Or to self select themselves out of existence before they take 50 terrified passengers with them.
But I don't expect you to agree to any of this, because it's bad for your bottom line
I do think better FAA training record keeping and access would have done more. Just like the PF in Atlas crash, this individual had a long history of failures he managed to keep hidden from several employers. Being in a regional with training and checking events could weed these people out in a way that being a bad flight instructor or banner tower that manages to survive won't. Will they weed them out? I think that is the question...