p51guy, do u know what u r talking about??? When the Buffalo plane crashed, the captain at like 5-6000 hours and the FO had 2-3000, even according to the new bill, those 2 pilots would have been qualified to fly that flight and guess what, they would still have crashed the plane...becoz the cause of accidents was pilot errors caused by pilot fatigue. They need to pass a bill on duty hours and work rules, not minimum required hours on flying passenger carrying airline.