Originally Posted by
Timbo
Delta has two types; Seniority list IP's who were hired as pilots, and have moved into the training dept. and who will someday return to flying the line full time (and they must fly line trips one out of three months while instructing). Most of them are F/O's.
If I'm not mistaken, but on the mid 90's contract wasn't that seen as a "give" by letting pilots that weren't CA's be instructors?
It was a long long time ago, and before the interwebz was such an effective tool of information. But it seems as if I remeber that as I was sitting on a dumper by the LGA crewroom at the terminal by the blast fence, and there was all the printed literature about was was given up on that contract and what was wanted back in C 01.