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Old 15th Dec 2009, 22:42
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p51guy
 
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Hopefully the FAA will follow the request of the relatives of this flight and require 1500 hrs to fly 121 operations. It has always made sense but now everything is the bottom line to get the lowest cost pilots. How can anybody be competent in a 121 operation with 250 hrs? Years ago, 60's, we got away with it because they were in the flight engineers seat for a few years. Now we can't, because there are no flight engineers. They go directly to a pilots seat they are not qualified to be in. Both of these pilots got hired with minimum experience so couldn't handle a self induced stall.
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