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Flight 3407 families may face off against Air Force general on pilot experience rules
The Families of Continental Flight 3407 Monday renewed their fight to preserve pilot experience requirements they got written into the law seven years ago, but this time they could be facing their most daunting opponent yet: the chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force. (buffalonews.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I'm a retired airline captain with over 22,000 total flight hours. I was USAF trained and I don't believe there is any finer training than that of a United States military aviator. That having been said, my son was trained commercially and at the time was qualified to fly the right seat of a regional jet with 250 hours. He is now, 14 years later, a first officer at major airline with over 8,000 hours. Now, 250 hours may be a bit lite on time, but 1500 hrs. is way more then is necessary. The united states air force not withstanding, as usual with our regulatory agencies here in the United States, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. And truly, this is not to diminish the loss of lives on flight 3407, my heart goes out to those people as only a person in the industry's could. But some amelioration of the flight time requirements must be done. We are keeping qualified individuals out of the cockpit way longer than is necessary. An accident is more than just about flight times. It is a cascade of events that leads to an accident. Let's make this right in a way that satisfies both the relatives of flight 3407, the Air Force, and The aviation industry.
I stated from the start that it would affect safety in other areas. When one is "stuck" being a flight instructor to build time when they don't want to be there it is going to affect safety. We may never know what incidents resulted from this scenario but it's a safe bet they have occurred similar to the "Getthereitis" problem that exist in GA.
Some people play the guitar for 10,000 hours and they still sound like a poseur.
My dad has prostrate cancer. That does not make me qualified to tell doctors how to treat prostate cancer.
1,500 is an arbitrary number picked by alarmists who don't entirely know what they are doing. Flight 3407 crashed because the captain, who had 3,379 hours, yanked back on the yoke during a stall while the FO, who had 2,244 hours, did nothing.
Should that cripple the Air Force and airline industry? I tend to think it shouldn't.
1,500 is an arbitrary number picked by alarmists who don't entirely know what they are doing. Flight 3407 crashed because the captain, who had 3,379 hours, yanked back on the yoke during a stall while the FO, who had 2,244 hours, did nothing.
Should that cripple the Air Force and airline industry? I tend to think it shouldn't.
Autocorrect boned me in the first line there.
"Autocorrect boned me in the first line there" - sure sure, making excuses....