Thread: Regional upgrade opportunity for new FO's
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Old 07-31-2007, 04:38 PM
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Originally Posted by ghilis101 View Post
Hey Rick the actual PICrequirement is not necessarily true, at least for an FAA ATP. I am one of those people who falls in the category of people who have no PIC time but can still go get an ATP. The way this is done is by logging "PIC duties" meaning with the Captains concurrence, an FO can be designated to run the show and log "PIC duties" for that leg. This is not PIC time, but rather a fictional category to satisfy this requirement. The FAA and the DE's at Skywest are aware of this and from what I understand theyll be using this more and more to get those guys upgraded.
The 1200 PIC requirement is for ICAO privileges. The FAA ATP requires only 250 hours PIC (or SIC acting as PIC)

It's good that SKW is specifically authorizing the "SIC acting as PIC" thing. It would not be possible to do that on revenue flight without the airline's (and FAA's) concurrence...way too much grey area there.
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