Advisory Panel Would Relax Rules for Co-Pilot Experience

[haele]

6. Companies all want something for nothing in the new gig economy...

Don't want to pay for the training and maintaining the hours needed to keep specialty skills up; companies want pilots - and doctors, IT security specialists, and other professionals to spend the majority their pretty much flat pay to maintain certification requirements.

If they don't pay enough that a specialist can schedule the practice hours, training, and contemporaneous research to be able to keep doing his or her job at an expected level of quality, then it's pretty obvious that the quality of the actual product they're building their petty financial empires on isn't really a concern to them.
It's "just business". Who cares if the surgeon is overworked and not up to date on the latest information that improves the survivability factor in his patients, or if a plane crashes because the pilot is exhausted and the co-pilot only experienced a catastrophic engine failure in simulation once in the past five years?

Oh, it might be a bit of a publicity problem for a couple months, but if they've saved away enough money, they can buy off enough publicists and lawyers to weather the storm while they promise all sorts of lies to the understaffed regulatory agencies and screw the survivors in court.

Haele