Originally Posted by
CANAM
It scares me to death, as it should you too, that an airline would hire anybody with 50 hours of multi-engine experience. I thought the whole Colgan crash was supposed to rid the industry of this.
I don't feel that you can judge a pilot's skills just on how many multi-engine hours they have. To me, if a pilot with 1,000 hours total and 20 multi can get hired by a regional and successfully complete training, then more power to them. Besides the fact that most twins are faster than most singles and that proficiency with single engine procedures is necessary in a twin, who really cares how many levers you have to push forward to initiate your take off? I don't get it. Besides, the Colgan crash wasn't really about a lack of experience, was it? I thought it was more about quality of training, fatigue, etc..