Originally Posted by
Killer51883
If i remember correctly renslow was hired in 2005 or so with as he quoted on the CVR 670 hours. Working for colgan for 3 years averaging 900 hours a year accounting for the occasional vacation and training events, you end up just around 3000 hours or so. is this not expierence? Expierence is not the god send to aviation that you think it is. Ive flown with very expierenced captains who were some of the most dangerous people I have ever seen in an airplane. I have also flown with brand new captains who had just been in the right place at the right time and were perfectly safe with low total hours. The reason this crash happend was momentary lack of attention that allowed the airspeed to decrease at a rapid rate. Even Sully could have a momentary lack of attention and allow that to happen. Does he have enough expierence for you?
My point is simply that pilots who ENTER the airline business having never learned to deal with the edge of the envelope will NEVER be trained by the airlines to deal with that possibility. If a pilot has poor stick and rudder skills and inadequate stick and rudder sense, the airline flying and training environment will NOT impart those qualities to that pilot. A pilot must gain good flying "sense" from somewhere other than the airline training department.
The airline training department is specialized in teaching the systems and operations of a specific airplane, and teaching the maneuvers required on a PC and type ride. A pilot could go through decades of recurrent and PC's and still not ever get any training about flying when the doodoo hits the fan.
My position is that pilots must gain that flying ability before they get to the sheltered airline training/operating environment.
It's about skills and abilities, not about hours or Expierence (sic).