Originally Posted by
CVGolfer
Wanttofly, I agree with you. Big airplanes with lots of experience crash as well as little planes. Changing hours of flight time is like increasing number of Memory items. Just because you have more Memory items in the Emer checklist doesn't make you any safer.
Not even close to the same thing.
1000 hrs of night, instrument PIC is NOT the same thing as taking 20 minutes to memorize a checklist.
This is making me sick that we are so eager to lower the bar. Yes, 1500 may be arbitrary and may be no different than 1400 or 1600, but its A LOT different that 200.
Does experience mean NOTHING to you guys? Does it not frighten you at all that a person who was hired with 200 hrs has pretty much never had to make a decision that was followed by consequences? There is a huge difference between a nice, safe situation where you make a decisions and have a warm, fuzzy discussion about the consequences and actually making a life or death decision and "living" with the consequences.