How Important is General Aviation Training for Airline Pilots?

[martymayes]

Some airlines do exactly that. An airliner, even a smaller RJ transport category turboprop is a different kind of flying all together (it's a different kind of flying). Of course, we've had some issues with pilots not realizing that the way to respond to stalls it to lower angle of attack, but that was Colgan and they have serious issues all around.

Well, in all fairness, it's not just a localized issue. The industry taught for a number of years that stall recovery in T category airplanes did not require reducing angle of attack. I think Paul Kolish single handedly convinced the entire industry they needed to change current methodology or more Colgan and AF accidents would populate the landscape. As usual, the story goes far deeper than what bubbles to the top for the press to skim off and create a headline story.

Not just Colgan. Air France 447.

And FLG3701. But what's not readily understood is there were some inadvertent stalls during revenue ops where the crews managed to recover that never made headlines and it was industry wide, not just regionals, and Colgan