I just stumbled forum on this while looking up more news on the bill. I'll admit I'm a low time pilot that hasn't even gotten his commercial yet, so I'm not going to argue on what a set experience requirement should be. I just know I'm skeptical about what will be accomplished when this is brought about by and incident involving a captain with 3,379 hours and first officer with 2,220. Both were well over the proposed requirements and the captain had his ATP. However, poor training was mentioned in a Wall Street Journal article back in May.

Would a 1,500 hour rule help prevent future incidents? I couldn't say for sure. I just know that in the incident that has sparked the bill, it wouldn't. Proper training likely would have.