Originally Posted by
BSOuthisplace
Couple questions for the group.
What 135 op flying boxes, pax, lab work, checks etc is actively hiring pilots right now?
What 121 accident has involved a pilot with less than 1500 hours? And if there is one, was his/her lack of hours directly attributed to the cause of the accident?
Prove to me that a pure lack of experience (less than 1500, 2000, 3000 however many hours) causes aircraft accidents and I'll support the angry mob. Until then my personal opinion is we need to be looking at quality of training. After all this is something that can be backed with examples (Pinnacle, Comair, and Colgan accidents).
The whole argument was the the CA at Colgan only had like 600 when he was hired as an FO. The politicians then started to question things forgetting that the crew had a combined experience of more than 5000 hours that night... including the FO that had more than ATP mins when she was hired. I am very sure that the CA knew how to get out of a stall but he didn't, including th eFO that raised the flaps at 20 degree pitch up. Why did the CA that took off on the wrong runway in Kentucky do it? Who knows? Should they have raised the mins then? Should they take out the FOs and CAs that were low timers that are flying now? Aren't they as dangerous as the CA of Colgan???