Originally Posted by
Klondike Bear
How do you know he wasn't an Maddog FO the whole time? I never saw anyone say these guys were 737 FOs. At my previous employer (the US Air Force) we had a few guys upgrade as low as 600 hours, and they did fine. A year in five months on the line at Delta is a good bit more time than that. Also all of these guys were Captains before somewhere. This is not the first jet they will be PIC in. So I think they will do fine.
I didn't. And maybe they were FOs in the MD-88, maybe they flew MD-88s at a previous airline, it's not the point.
I'm raising the point that there is no ORM/risk management setup like we had in the AF. I was an ADO in charge of signing orders and vetting crews. If Delta has the same system, then all is great. Sounds like they have a CP who looks at crew makeup and decides maybe this Captain shouldn't fly with this FO because of lack of experience or lack of currency. I'm not sure that's the case.
Look, I know guys come to the major airlines with PIC time, plenty of hours, plenty of experience, it's not a question of how many flight hours. It comes down to regression, it comes down to system knowledge, it comes down to experience in the airframe.
You guys are saying there's no issue at all with someone with no time in type being the Captain, fine. I wouldn't want my family on that plane.