Originally Posted by Lobaeux;
Ask yourselves, would you really feel comfortable with your wife and family in the back of an MD-88 with a Captain who has zero experience in the airframe?
That happens ALL the time. Have you never heard of FOs upgrading into different equipment?? Or Captains taking a different airframe??
Do you think a 737 captain has to become a 757 FO before he should be allowed to be a 757 captain?
Seriously, this happens ALL the time.
Awesome for the MD-88 pilots. Good for them.