Hey Guys & Gals,

I was reading the Nov.- Dec. 09 edition of Airliners Magazine and they are saying that congress is trying to pass HR 3371 "The Airline Safety and Pilot Training Improvement Act of 2009. The purpose of this bill is to improve the safety and Training practices for the airline industry, so they say. Somewhere maybe in this series of laws or something totally different, I've heard that, because of the colgan air Q400 crash in NY and the fact that the captain of said flight had failed a checkride(s) & displayed poor performance on said checkrides, congress is looking at drafting a series of laws which will basically dictate that if a pilot fails any check ride, they may not be allowed to work for an airline or become a captain. This check ride evaluation history will begin with the private pilot check ride and go forward. ***?

Has anyone else heard of this on the news, I-net, or else where?
I really want this to be a BS rumor that will never come to be, but
with our current gov'ts policy of under-the-table law(bill) passing, anything goes.

TDX