That is an interesting perspective Bob, one I have never heard. As for me I have about 7000 hours in the left seat. I am now right seat on a widebody and may never go back. The QOL is untouchable and I make as much as most of the Captains I fly with. So I tend to agree more with LandGreen2. Or maybe I have mentally become a content F/O, who knows. Either way no narrow body left seat bid for me.
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Originally Posted by
BobZ
If this bid doesn't work out for anybody....there will be another one next year I suppose.
As for those who sit senior FO....as a new hire SO I flew with FOs who could have been captains..with good seniority in the base. Being a newbie and not understanding the thought process, I asked a captain about why these FOs were doing what they were doing?
His answer didn't make a lot of sense at the time, but 30 years on I get it completely....he told me, 'if you stay in the copilot seat long enough, it wont matter to you what else you can hold, mentally that's what you will permanently become, an FO.....and that's where you will retire.'
Over the last few years I have flown with a lot of senior FOs, and what that Captain told me as a new hire.....now makes a lot of sense.
Originally Posted by
LandGreen2
Some senior 777 FOs are making more $$ than junior 777 CAs. Need to add that to the equation as well; probably top 10% of every category has that ability if they are working the system properly.