Originally Posted by
baseball
A 737 Line check airman can take a pee break from IAH to EWR. Just get a FA to babysit.
A 777 check airman can also do the same thing. PEE breaks are not a factor.
Last I heard, flight attendants were not qualified as pilots on the 737/777- which is the whole point of this new requirement by the FAA.
Originally Posted by
pilot64golfer
Yes. Relief pilot is a better description. IRO traditionally was a pilot that was not qualified to takeoff or land, and only for inflight relief. They also had to be FE qualified because they relieved the FE. These were used on the old 747s and DC-10s. So we called them IRO, but they are really just FOs that are not assigned to sit in the right seat on takeoff or landing, even though they are qualified.
Must have been different at United. At CAL, a DC-10 IRO had to be current in both seats and type rated, landing qualified as a captain. I know, I went through a couple landing currency sims on the 10 as IRO in 1988.