Originally Posted by whaledog
I will not fly on a commuter airline in the US. Do you really want to be sitting fat dumb and not happy in the back of a jungle jet while a no time fo just fills the seat while a low time Captian fly solo? (Comair crash?)
Not that I disagree with the general sentiment of your post, but, for the record, both pilots in the Comair crash were plenty high-time, as were the pilots in the Pinnacle incident. That may be because a low-time guy (like me, for instance) is always double and triple checking himself, while the higher-time guy may well become more complacent.
Just a thought.