Originally Posted by
BAFlightTEST
This place amazes me sometimes....We have a ton of qualed ETOPS guys here but they were in the wrong squadron to help re invent the wheel the TX way. They have CKA who have never flown ETOPS before teaching other CKA how to do it one or two flights. We need to have RQ pilots who did this day in and day out for years to help. Just one humble civilians opinion...
PS...Yes I did volunteer and so did several other OAK pilots with serious over water time....
PSS... Clutch I can see we used to drive some of the same metal years ago...SAT
You sir, don’t know what you are talking about. I was in on it from the beginning. We are a new operator to ETOPS. We took the existing IFOM and dove-tailed in the two relevant AC’s. That’s it. Yeah, eventually we’ll probably go to electronic plotting, but the reliability of iPads and the storage of electronic records needs to remedied first. And we might go to “on-demand APU ops, but it takes an Ops Spec or two, and we want to start this year. Tech Ops had the hardest job. Why make it harder?
The B737 is NOT a great ETOPS airplane, but you go with what you got.
As far as CKAs doing the checking? That’s the seniority system. CKAs are captains that have applied to be CKAs. There are numerous experienced FOs and a few CAs that can do it, but they don’t want to commute or live in California. Again, you go with what you’ve got.
There seems to be a lot of “tech-cedure” circulating as well. All you need to know or procedures to follow are in the IFOM. Don’t make it hard.