Originally Posted by
LowSlowT2
Disagree. The EP ALWAYS has the "real" A-code...in other words, regardless of what your flight orders say, the EP has the ultimate responsibility if he is actively evaluating...which he should always be doing...even if he isn't actively logging EP time.
Just like an IP sitting right seat for a young AC who has the A-code on the orders has ultimate responsibility to "fix things" when they go pear shaped.
It's easy to figure out who has the ultimate responsibility - who is the SQ/DO going to yell out loudest?
^^^ THIS!!!
I sat through lots of EP Cert boards and heard multiple Sq CC's say that no matter what you are coded as… You are ALWAYS the EP! A code or not, the second something goes sideways on the jet they hook the A Code and then they hook the EP whether he was serving in that capacity or not… and then they blame the EP for letting it happen. Seen it happen multiple times. I'm counting every second of EP time.
I remember having a weekly co-pilot meeting and telling them one week that anytime they were flying with an EP that if they were in the window for a no-notice then they could expect one whether they were coded as an EP or not (which they didn't like to hear). I said the bad news was I was going to give them a no-notice, the good news was that anything they did that was bad enough to earn them a Q-3 meant that I actually let them do it so I'd have to Q-3 myself… and that wasn't happening! I'll take the hit on other time (reluctantly), but not on IP/EP time. I can justify that all day long...