Originally Posted by travelingWX-man

Sometimes I wonder if we really aren't our own worst enemy!?! Honestly what the h*** is wrong with some of you people. And I DO mean YOU PEOPLE! I understand that there is never going to be a magic fix for most of the problems we face. And trust me, I understand the problems with a divided pilot group, shameless management, cheap/obnoxous pax, poor work rule (my company recently decided that an 18hr day is ok, so long as the last leg is "part 91") and experience versus training, quality v. quantity bull... but is sounds like some of you have been castrated and groomed by Lorenzo himself. We finally have the public paying attention and concerned about the safety and of regionals and we call them ignorant and naive. The NTSB and Congress want to finally force the FAA to address fatigue and some of you actually have the nerve to say a shorter duty day limit might adversely affect your QOL???? (run-on alert)And after years of complaining about the 200hr wunder kid not being able to fly out of a paper bag, but willing to fly a shiny CRJ-10,000 or E-whatever for 16k a year, we finally have an important but admittedly small step of reducing their ranks and, gasp, requiring airline transport pilots to have an airline transport pilot's license and you guys balk at the idea???? Are you such a gift to aviation that you couldn't benefit from an additional 500-1000hrs of doing whatever in some sort of airplane?? I rarely post here, but felt this needed to be said. Would this accidnet have happened if these rules were in place? Probably not but who knows. But honestly, how can any line pilot say that a shorter duty day, atps mins for a atp pilot, and better access to past records is a bad thing?! Time to get over your self and Grow a SET!!!