Originally Posted by
usmc-sgt
If the public only knew that 600 with 250 multi was high time....
Colgan is enamored with multi time and I recall talking to a recruiter and one of the new hires on the line at Colgan and for some reason it came up that the kid had 300 hours when hired...but.....THE RECRUITER SAID HE HAD 180 MULTI!!!
For a long period of time I would say that the VAST majority of colgan new hires had nowhere near 600 TT
The problem I have with all of this lies with the FAA and insurance companines. How any insurance company can think that FAA minimums is "enough" is beyond me. What they fail to inform people is that while accidents with death is down, the
potential of accidents with death is up. How can we qualify that, simply ask those of us that have to do this day in and day out.
There needs to be hard numbers in both experience and pay for all pilots coming into the industry. Simply restating that Colgan, "is among the industry standard" is not praise, nor impressive. It's the same as Taco Bell saying, hey, we get more market share because we sell a .79 cent taco, aren't we great?!?