Originally Posted by BMEP100

No..... you old fart. You specifically said they were NOT qualified.



In any case it was a lousy job, but necessary. In recent years we had a captain on the 767 that would use the IRO as a cruise pilot, with the philosophy that he wanted himself and the landing FO as fresh as possible for the approach. He didn;t care if the IRO was asleep in the jumpseat. He is retireed now, but I have been tempted a few times to adopt his practice on some of the more challenging trips.