Originally Posted by
rickair7777
In fairness they kept the ATP/1500 requirement, THAT would have been bad, going back to wet commercials.
Why? It worked for many years before that. Colgan had nothing to do with the amount of time the pilots had.
And while yeah, most 250hr pilots can't handle a jet (they seem to do ok in Europe with it?) maybe something like 500 hrs or 700 hours would have been a good middle point.