Originally Posted by
SonicFlyer
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.
Except it didn't work. There were relatively short periods of times when guys were getting hired with a wet commercial. The whole reason the pay to play model even developed is because guys were desperate to get hired by someone to get experience. Most "commuters" back then, flying turboprops, were hiring guys with 2-3k hours of experience.