Originally Posted by
Timbo
So...how do you 'assess his flying skills' if you don't let him fly? He passed his sim check, he passed his IOE, but now you have to decide if he's good enough?
When I was flying domestic, I always gave the F/O's as many legs as they wanted, pays the same, just don't wake me up!
Now that I'm doing ULR flying, I only take one leg per month, just to keep from having to commute into ATL for bounces on my days off.
Timbo, I assess how he rotates on an 800 first. The 900 is a very easy tail strike. If he reefs it off and I get a tail strike warning in the HUD, we're going to have a chat. That's how I do it. We don't have a 900 simulator and they may not have flown one on their IOE. I get them the first time.
You haven't flown a 900. We've already had a couple of tail strikes. I just don't want to be on the list and I don't want to be responsible for someone else being on the list, either.
Now, get off my lawn.