Originally Posted by
NoBeta
Originally posted by Sniper
Don't want to be a CFI, have no talent for teaching, have bad eyes so the military doesn't want you? Fine. Go fly piston freight with your commercial license. Just don't expect you should be able to perform as a airline pilot without being licensed as such.
Sniper I am missing your point. No pun intended but IFR 135 can be challenging.
IFR 135
IS challenging and that is exactly his point. A pilot has no business in the flight deck of an airliner until he/she has been challenged by doing something else. Pilots should FIRST learn how to make good decisions, then start flying passengers around.
Originally Posted by
Purpleanga
The only way that what you are saying is possible is if the gov itself forced the regionals to hire only high timers which will never happen. It's none of their business to tell the airlines how to run their hiring
Actually it is completely their business. That is what the FAA is for. As quoted on the FAA's website, "Our continuing mission is to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world." They do this through regulations and one of these should be that only pilots with an ATP could fly an airliner.
Originally Posted by
Purpleanga
As I stated before these pilots were high timers, the fo had 1600 at the time of hire and a few hundred hours on the q, that wasn't the issue.
A couple people have mentioned this during the debate. The fact that the Captain was high time now is not the issue. He was hired as a low time pilot. Around 650 total, and 250 of that was already in a 121 environment. Had he needed an ATP before getting hired at either Airline, he may have had a chance to build strong flying skills before putting passenger's lives at risk.