Okay, correct me if I am wrong, but the Captain of 3407 had some 3,300+ hrs and the F/O 2,200+ hrs (Both qualified for an ATP).

Also please correct me if I am wrong, but isn't stall awareness and recovery lesson #2 after learning to fly straight and level....?

Also PLEASE help me understand who in their right mind would go through a 60,000+ dollar education to start out making 16$ an hour on reserve. Sleeping in crash pads, eating 3 meals a day out of vending machines, and flying all-night sleep deprived and sick...

There are almost 90,000 flights in the US daily. A decent proportion of these flights have a crew member with less the 1500 hours... I'd say these none-ATP licensed pilots have a decent safety record for getting people where they need to go on time.

If passengers want pilots with 1500 hours to fly in airline cockpits. Then why are they not compensating these pilots for the 1500 hours of crap they got to eat to get there? Heart surgeons get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year because they are directly responsible for a persons life on a daily basis. Why are pilots making less the 20K yearly when they are responsible for 50+ lives, for 7 legs a day?

Please HELP me understand some of this better... It seems to me that this Bill is a knee jerk reaction to the FACT that Pilots CAN screw up (regardless of experience), and when they do people die....