Jokes are jokes. I have a sicker sense of humor than you can ever imagine. You probably wouldn't like flying with me; I'd let you make decisions and have fun doing it. I'd also stick the leg off a Barbie doll on your yoke so that you knew it was your leg. I don't believe the cockpit is the place for a tie with the door closed, but fuzzy dice are optional.

The point about overspeed is the cavalier attitude that is developing, just like the one about carrying open items without writing them up to "keep the operation going." One overspeed may not hurt you, but cumulative ones lead to fun things like keel beams breaking...or spars snapping. It's like a pinprick...one won't kill you, but enough of them and you bleed to death.

For the Colgan check airman to not think it was important enough to write up and overspeed shows a lack of understanding of potential outcomes. To not do it with a Fed looking over his shoulder is beyond stupid.

Whether this Fed was a head case or what, that's for others to prove. If he had documented cases of problems, then Randy Babbitt, the new FAA honcho, needs to jump on Colgan's throat and not let up until they can their Flight Ops and management people who let this happen.

And he should can his own people who turned a blind eye as well.