Originally Posted by
ForeverFO
All this contemplation about guys with bus experience coming in to save the day because we are "unused to the 320"... We've got 12,000 hour FO's and 18,000 hour CA's transitioning into the jet, with decades of service under their belts in everything from DC-9's and 727's to MD-11's and 777's.
I think we can man our own bus fleet successfully. It's similar to the days when the first true FMC jets arrived and 727 guys transitioned. With rare exception, it went fine.
If you have A320 time, it indicates you have 121 experience, not that it gives you a leg up. Just MO.
Couldn't have said it any better.
*on a side note, doesn't Airbus design aircraft as to minimize pilot input, meaning automatic? This airplane is flown around the world by low time pilots with captains who don't have an abundance of experience. It is still an airplane, much happens behind the scene unlike more mechanical airplanes but the majority of the systems operate on the same basic principle. Just like when one transitions from one airplane to the other, the physics behind the systems are put together different to achieve the same outcome.
I have only flown two transport category aircraft but I do a lot of research and expanding on my knowledge. So some guys with multiple type ratings might say otherwise but I would have to go on a limb and say all the subsonic guys will agree.
How does a pack operate?
Hot air goes in and cold air comes out!
How that is accomplished might differ from aircraft to aircraft but that's more of a maintenance function and my ability to troubleshoot from the cockpit in flight is limited if not restricted by ops specs.