Originally Posted by
pilotchute
Right let's sort this out. The 1500 hour was more to do with lifting pilots salaries and conditions than having experience up the front. A regional FO at the time of Colgan made 18k a year. Thats food stamp wages. Pilots couldn't afford to move out of home. They were sleeping in crew rooms. Thats what happens when you put 250 hour kids in jets. They work for nothing.
The Colgan 3407 pilots weren’t “250 hour kids”. The FO for instance had over 1500hrs of instructing experience in beautiful CAVOK weather in Arizona, all that experience served her well in icing conditions in upstate New York didn’t it? Didn’t stop her from cross country commutes because she couldn’t afford to live in her base and having to work a second job? Didn’t stop her from calling in sick when she was sneezing on the CVR?