Originally Posted by
NERD
If he's a 777B, he should have enough experience whether previous civilian job or the military. I'm by no means Chuck Yeager, or NewK but I went from the widebody world to my first capt checkout on a plane I never had flown as an FO.
Just one possible explanation if he's never seen the airplane before.
IMHO there is an awful lot of oddball stuff about the MD88 that is really only teachable by experience.
Originally Posted by
newKnow
I mean, how hard can it be to operate on a rocket?
Ask Iran?
Oh, that was Carl's point.