Airlines Oppose Safety Rule to Increase Pilot Flight Experience

October 15, 2010

  • October 15, 2010 at 2:48 am
    Reese says:
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    The public should be outraged at the airline’s argument that having more experienced pilots would increase salaries. Duh! These people have the lives of many in their hands and should be highly compensated for the responsibiliy they have. What really torque’s me off is they don’t want to pay decent wages to pilots when the Wall Street Bankers are getting paid millions for sitting on their fat _sses. The biggest risk thy run is getting their shoes scuffed.

  • October 18, 2010 at 1:20 am
    adjuster says:
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    And what about all those students hoping to make it to the airlines “someday”? Did you know it takes a MINIMUM of $30k to even get to the minimums (100 Multi engine, plus about 1,000 total time)required to even apply for a pilot job at a regional?? They are proposing 1,500 total multi-engine, which would only be attainable by a high-time military pilot.

    Somehow we trust military pilots with multi-million dollar airplanes, with the potential to kill hundreds of thousands of people, with only 500 hours of experience.

    There isn’t an experience problem at regionals, only a management and FAA Regulation problem. The main problem in that accident was the pilots were TIRED. Fatigue negates even the advantages exprienced pilots have. There was an accident last year involving two retired airline pilots with over 15,000 hours between them, piloting a small cessna out of Las Vegas. They took off and flew into a mountain less than 10 minutes later, on a dark night.



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