I dont think it is pointless...............

It clearly shows how sick and tired and fustrated Regional pilots are of being treated as second class pilots by these ego tripped Legacy pilots that judge all Regional pilots as kids playing being Airline pilots before and more after the Colgan crash.

If you are a Regional pilot in any big Airport in the US you must have noticed the change in how the legacy pilots more and more look the other way when seing a Regional pilot after the Colgan crash. ( No , I do not care a bit about it). The legacy pilots do not want anything to do with the "Regional Pilots" and hate if people/the public sees them as equals. They have surly shown by words and attitude that they believe to be near gods and so much better than those "false Airline pilots" called Regional Pilots.

I believe that the Delta landing on the Taxiway and the NorthWest overflying by 150 miles is just what was needed to take these gods of aviation down to earth again.

Now suddenly we have issues with legacy pilots showing that they by no means are gods better trained or more experienced than many many Regional pilots. Bad attitude in relation to your job has nothing to do with the size of the Airline you work for.

To call Regionals and Legacy "different levels" is just being ignorant. Regional pilots work is more demanding and many times performed in more advanced or more demanding equipment. The only "different level" is the pay.

I have personaly seen the most horrible examples of pilots while jumpseating on Legacy carriers and I am sure that legacy pilots have seen the same jumpseating on Regionals.

I do have to agree with them that say that Legacy pilots are given much more leeway than Regional pilots in the same situation.

I believe that at the Moment the FAA and congress are in a state of shock and cannot understand the situation. They believed so strongly that Regionals pilots are the incompetent unexperienced ones that are only in the Regional level just getting experience and waiting to get to the Legacy and that the Legacy pilots are the "Real Pilots" and the "cream of the cream". The ones that land an AirBus in the river and saves everyone.

It must be like that...(they say to themselves)....they have even been in Congress and told us about how inexperienced and dangerous the Regional pilots are............

poor Congress people

Now the earth is not flat anymore.................

How can these Legacy Macho Super pilots be doing these mistakes now??

Suddenly they have made everything so complicated.......now the FAA will have to sit in the Sims at the Legacy level too and check over their training etc etc.......like the FAA did not have enough work with the Regionals..........

I wonder how the bill will be affected..............

Now suddenly it may show that the 1500 hours does not give any guarantee against tremendous incidents and that it is just a number and that you can do all kind of mistakes even if you have 15000 hours...(like we did not know that before)

Wonder what comes out of all this if it is proven that these two crews of ATP high hours pilots made the mistakes causing the taxiway landing and the 150 miles overfly. If it is proven to be pilot errors then it will give another dimention to the debate around the Congress bill.

Maybe all this will open many eyes............

Would love to Hear that arrogant US Airways FO in Congress after this is investigated.............