I still don't see what this will prevent. As I understand it, the captain was flying that plane. He was the one that failed to recover from the stall. Obviously he had more than 1500 hours and the plane still crashed.

While I agree that airlines shouldn't be hiring pilots with 250 hours, I just don't think this will prevent anything. If anything it will prevent someone who is qualified form applying and being hired. Example, what if someone has 1,200 total and 250 of that is multi? Just an example but possible for someone to have this time. Do they not have enough experience for at least the regional level? I think that's at least worthy of an interview.

I think there should be more emphasis on the pilots background, and airlines' training programs. That's what I think the government should be more concerned about. After all, if you go threw a crappy training program, then more than likely you will perform that way. Also, I believe, at the regional level anyway, that some people are being allowed to slip threw the cracks rather then being let go when they should.

There is no replacement for experience, but I think this legislation is just putting a band aid on things. Just making people happy instead of addressing other, more direct, issues that contributed to this accident.