This effectively makes me unqualified for the job I once had.

I have 600 or so hours of SIC in RJs, then another 1000 hours PIC at a commuter airline in the northeast. The only thing is, 900 of those 1000 hours at the commuter has been single-pilot. For those keeping count, that puts me at 700 hours of multi-crew experience, and unqualified to sit right seat in an RJ. Don't mind that I've sat there in the ice blowing boots as quick as possible, dug through lines of thunderstorms with a 1970s radar in New England, and hand flown ILSs to 1800 RVR. Apparently that doesn't count for anything.

No, the guy with 800 hours in the right seat of some RJ being supervised by a senior captain is more qualified than 90% of the pilots at my current carrier. If the FAA is looking to keep thousands of 135 pilots with large amounts of real-world PIC experience out of the cockpit of RJs, congratulations, they've done it.

EDIT: By the way guys, I've read and re-read the article, and it appears to me that it's not 800 hours total time...it appears that it's 800 hours of multi-crew experience plus icing experience. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

EDIT 2: Disregard. I finally saw the "some of..." caveat near the end of the article. Got fired up and skimmed that part. I r win at reading comprehenshun. But, my point still stands: What about the pilots who've cut their teeth flying single-pilot freight?