I am not a big poster on these forums, but how did this turn into a low time vs. high time pilot debate again. Yes the regionals hire lowertime people generally. But I don't know of any that are hiring anyone now, except maby G7 and they kinda have the pick of the litter box now. I recently read an article from UNITED MAINLINE from the 1960's requiring 350 hours to be competative, NO instrument rating required. 350 hours guys, for a mainline job. I believe that the quality of training is what needs to be scrutinized, as well as profesionality of the individuals hired. In theory if the training department does its job properly, all of the "qualified" pilots are equal upon completion of training and IOE. 1000000 hours of flying traffic patters in a piper j3 becomes irrelivent. I know some low time pilots that are very very good, and the WORST pilot that I ever flew with was quite senior.