Originally Posted by
OOfff
1) it was a response to Colgan, not a gift to unions
2) it absolutely had to do with safety
No it didn't, both pilots in Colgan had well over 1500 hours. This has been explained ad nauseam, please try and keep up.
Originally Posted by
OOfff
3)it’s disingenuous to say this, because the statistical modeling of exceptionally rare events is nearly impossible. This is the problem with “safety science” as a whole.
So you're saying that there is no way to prove that the 1500 hour rule has made us safer?
Originally Posted by
2StgTurbine
You think ALPA had any pull with Obama?! The general public and politicians don’t care about airline pilots. There are so many more important things in politics than our small airline world. The families of Colgan 3407 is what CONGRESS cared about. It was bad PR to have them on the news talking about how unsafe the 121 world was. Unions had nothing to do with it.
Yes and no. The PR thing of course, but you also realize that Obama was made by the unions. The unions created him and got him in office. They are his base, his bread, and butter. So he absolutely mandated 1500 hours as a payback to the unions.
Originally Posted by
Jdub2
Why change it? What possible reason would there be to get rid of the rule? It seems like it's helped so let's let sleeping dogs lie.
Because it is unnecessary, a political decision at its core, and it is creating an artificially higher barrier to entry which is leading to overworked pilots now and poor QOL not to mention hampering market expansion.