I thought Mason32 worked for American Eagle.. maybe I got it wrong and he works for mainline American... if not someone needs to explain to me how Eagle isn't a regional?

DOT defines an airline with over a billion in revenues as a major airline which different from how the pilots define major and regional airlines.

People with smaller... umm... things usually need to make up for their inadequacies by making themselves bigger and more important than they really are.

No, you lie.

You do what you do because it allows you higher Jumpseat Priority.

Actually WHEN the congress bill passes, they will never be that low again.

First of all there hasn't been a wet commercial hire in probably 2 years at a regional, so that means that they could possibly have 2000 hours by today. And second, those guys were in the minority. It's become the norm now, the 200 hour wonders this and 200 wonder that. But the reality, was VERY hard to get some kind of advanced flying with a wet commercial. The people that did are a small percentage that went to advanced training, that were really trained only to fly the CRJ or ERJ. Yes I wouldn't get near them if they're flying a 172 solo but as far as airline procedures they were certainly more prepered for their job than a street guy flying laps in the pattern. Yes there were many of us that didn't get a CFI but it didn't mean that we were 200 hour wonders.

I've seen 500 hour guys with no CFI that were excellent in training because all they did was fly IFR XC and I've seen 1500 VFR CFIs that were afraid to hand fly an airplane with no FD, and a bunch of other examples. It all depends on the individual and also the training they've had. 1500 hour is just a number, it doesn't mean anything.


Colgan crash FO had a 2200 hours and was hired with 1700. The CA had 3500. So 5700 combined.

Comair crash they had thousands.

Show us an accident that was caused by a 200 hour wonder.

You get what you pay for.

So true, and sometimes people dont want to pay our asking price.

Passengers only care about flying down to Orlando for $49.00. They demand cheap airfares and then whine when there's no service.

Comedians made careers out of complaining about airline food, then were upset when the airlines stopped serving said meals.

But these same people want to fly for the cheapest possible price available. They have demanded Greyhound prices and seem surprised by the Greyhound services.

People want to enjoy the finest things in life - best car, desiner jeans, huge house, big screen TV. They then DEMAND "Sully" when something goes wrong up there on their $49.00 flight, flown by a guy making $17,000/year (and hasn't seen his wife in 10 days).

Remember after the Colgan crash - there was all that talk about airline pilot pay. Hell, even Congress was concerned. Ahh, that was a good week.

Sorry, I'm not at Eagle. Doesn't mean I never ever was either. Take it for what it is.

Didn't the CA have just barely over 100 in type? and didn't both of them admit to having very little experience in icing weather....

There is your accident caused by low experience, and poor training.