Originally Posted by
vilcas
Not sure what you think the First Officer is supposed to be doing, but from day one its gathering experience. An engaged first officer (not one who spend their time reading and listening to iPod) should be involved in the decision making process and most importantly seeing the results of the decisions after the fact. This is quite valuable and I find it more germain to what's required in the airline operation than turns around a point and getting a student to their first solo.
Dunno what airline you work for but.....
I've done IOE with multiple outfits (121 and 135) and we were always practicing stalls, slow flight and other basics on day 1 and pretty much every other day, while we carried 8-80 pax in the back
. Thats what we got paid to do lol.
Seriously though, if you did not do the basics prior to showing up for IOE, you never get much of a chance to hone those skills. Once a year PC will not help this.
Check out air france 447 and other incidents for why this matters....
