Originally Posted by Clocks

Considering the fact that no regional has crashed with a pilot under 2200 hours, that indicates that the 2200-5000 hour pilots are the problem.

So...I think if we make the law 2500 hours, it should be retroactive.

Fire every regional pilot who didn't CFI for 1000 hours and then fly 1.5-2 years of boxes/labwork/135. They need to go hit the pattern, master steep turns, and interpret weather for their 50nm cross countries.

It's the only way to make the regionals safer. Once they've gone back and learned the basics, they can reapply for the jobs they are so dangerously performing at now.


According to this thread, you weren't even close to ready. 1500 hours is just getting started. You need to take a COLA and go pick up a CFI job to experience all the things real pilots learned before their first 121 job. I need to know what major you work for so I remember not to let my family fly on it.