Originally Posted by
rickair7777
But the problem with colgan is at least the CA had very low time when he started at colgan. IMO that is a recipe for diasaster...face it, there are some things you simply don't learn in a 121 cockpit.
Airline ops occur in a multi-layered bubble of protections which insidiously encourage complacency. Nothing like 1000+ hours of piston 91/135 to teach you that things can and will eventually go wrong.
We would all like to think that we are not capable of mistakes but I believe the ultimate cause of the Colgan crash was failure of the most basic pilot skills. The crew failed to identify the airspeed bleeding off which resulted in a stall that they did not recover from...very tragic. These skills are learned at the private pilot level.....ALWAYS fly the plane first.....this has nothing to do with when they were hired with how many hours......my prayers are for the family's of those affected by this terrible tragedy and that we all can learn from that tragedy...
I do agree with the new ATP Requirement.....it can only help increase safety