Originally Posted by
SonicFlyer
That's not about safety then, that's about pay and work rules. The rest requirement changes that resulted from Colgan were excellent and were a good step forward. As well as the training emphasis on stalls, prevention, and icing. But don't pretend the 1500 hour rule had anything to do with safety, there is zero evidence it did.
But to not see the pay and safety as correlated is ignorant. There isn't enough pilots to form datasets to "prove with evidence" anyway, the absence of a correlation study isn't proof that higher pay which yields quality of life in the form of commuter hotels or crashpads, and general ability to pay for services, is irrelevant to safety. Simple surveys of pilots who operated under the old rules and pay vs today, is a clear and loud "it's so much better today".