Is Colgan toast?

[jmreii]

This is kind of off topic, but this seems a gray area to me. I haven't filled out an application in a while but I don't recall itemizing which GA rides I failed. It was a "Have you ever failed a checkride" if the answer is yes, than you are asked to explain in the interview. I don't recall that ever going in a record anywhere and it obviously doesn't show up on PRIA records. I always felt GA failures were more about your attitude towards them than any vetting process. What are others experiences in this area?

cale

The PRIA only covers 5 years back from the date of your emploment application. Checkrides, writtens, oral failures will be in your airmen records that the FAA keeps forever. I have yet to see an airline care about someone failing their checkride for a private, commercial, instrument, etc. What they do care about is the 135 and 121 checkrides. There is also a unwritten degree of difficulty rule. A pilot that blows his checkride in a hawker jet still looks better than a pilot that passes all his checkrides in a c-172, pa-140, are an easy airplane to operate.

 

[30West]

Indeed, all good points. However you will have to search long and hard to find an accident where a crewed 121 airplane allowed the plane to literally stop flying in mid-air.

I need only look at Northwest at DTW, Air Florida at DCA and Delta in DFW. In all three instances crewed 121 aircraft were indeed allowed to stop flying mid-air.

I need only look at Eastern in Miami and American in Colombia. In both instances crewed 121 aircraft were allowed to stop flying mid-terrain.

I need only look at Eastern in JFK and Delta in DFW. In both instances crewed 121 aircraft were allowed to stop flying mid-thunderstorm.

No one is immune to stupid mistakes, regardless of where one considers themselves or any other pilot on the "bottom feeder" s##tpile.