Me >That would help, but that's not what the FAA did, is it?
USN >The Colgan captain had an inordinate number of failures throughout his career. A normal number of failures would be one on an initial CFI and maybe one other. More than that makes a trend.
Did -- or did not, the FAA order restrictions based on flight hours?
Did -- or did not, the FAA ignore the number of down-checks a pilot can accumulate?
You are correct. 1500 hours won't stop anything. It will make it harder to get into commercial flying.