FAR Sixty-One Point One Sixty, the Fifteen Hundred Hour Rule, and the Colgan Air Crash That Rewrote Who Sits in the Right Seat of Every Regional Airliner
FAR 61.160 raised the first officer flight hour minimum from 250 to 1,500 hours after the 2009 Colgan Air crash - here's what that means for pilot careers and the airline network.
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