Originally Posted by
ForeverFO
^^ I may be misunderstanding you, but the North Atlantic is much more complicated than the Carib or SA. Going deep South is no big deal.
I was told that for the IOE, they want you on Europe for that very reason... so you can be shown the NAT ropes, and the painful overcomplication that is LHR operations.
I've been flying So Am and Carib since 2001. You are correct that North Atlantic is complicated. However, there is terrain in the Carib and in SO AM there are over 200 peaks above 20,000' Knowing where to go is pretty important.
In March we had a new 777 CA that had never flown So AM. and did not recieve a So Am IOE. He got real defensive when I tried to tell him something. So I stopped trying to be helpful.
There is alot to know about Carrib and So Am. It is not right for me to have to play check airman. I'm willing to offer whatever I can to a fellow pilot, but this is just not right.