now they finally pay attention.

[30West]

Some fo you need to take a long look inside yourselves and be thoroughly ashamed of what you see.

ANY one of you could be next. Doesn't matter if you're regional or major, make $20 or $120, iron your shirt or sleep in it, carry a stickerless flight bag or Pokemon backpack, have flashy rollaboard wheels or plain black ones, you're military or civilian, union or non, etc.
To even presume to sit in judgement of and smear one of your own for something you could easily be on the news next for, or generalize an entire group of pilots is the real travesty.
True "professionals" would not let themselves get swept up in the media feeding frenzy like a pack of pre teenage girls trying to get a glimpse of the Jonas brothers out the backstage door.

 

[Whistlin' Dan]

I forget where I first heard this, but it seems especially appropriate to this discussion...

"The problem with the Parisian prostitutes is that over-enthusiastic newcomers to the trade have driven down both the price AND the quality"

Good pilots "are where you find them." Military or civilian, Regional or Legacy, passenger or freight...it doesn't matter. Good is good, no matter their background. But to get good pilots you have to start with good people, and I'm not convinced that most Regional airlines offer the pay and benefits necessary to attract those types of individuals. A newly-minted nurse in most big cities can start at 40K/yr, a graduate engineer about the same. But a regional airline pilot (carrying twice the student-debt) is lucky to make 20K his first year, and his 5 and 10 year projected income falls well behind either of those other disciplines. Where's the smart money going to go?

To the managers of Colgan, and unfortunately, to their passengers, I say, "You pay for Karaoke, you get Karaoke"

This accident alone will not change things. But this accident, combined with that of Comair few years ago and numerous other "senseless" accidents in the Regional Airline industry, may well be the beginning of the end for the bottom-feeders.

 

[Long Time Gone]

i fly for a regional, and yes there are TO many of the pilots above you described. i take my job serious. i act professional. maybe other captains can explain this to their fo's. i do preach professionalism to the fo's i fly with on occasion. maybe the rest of us should do the same. if this approach helps, time will tell.

You may act professional, yet your grammar is that of a child. There are TOO many people here with a college education and no clue.