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Yeah we don't have any dedicated IROs here at Delta. Usually we talk about who needs landings during briefing and the Captain divvies it up....or we flip a coin, whatever. Its normally not a problem to get your landings in.
But we do have a mini-1-day-recurrent every 6 months to practice some stuff in the sim. Generally a non-jeopardy painless event.
Now the 777 is probably tougher with 4 pilots. I think there are probably a bunch of guys who only land in the sim.
You guys don't have any IRO-only lines every month?
At AA we have CA lines, FO lines and FB (IRO) lines. If you get an FB (IRO) line, you are stuck as the IRO the whole month (unless you trip trade for FO trips.)
APA tried to introduce what you guys have a few years ago - whereby the CA could divvy up the landings between who needed them most. Then FOs started *****ing that they were getting booted out of their "hard earned seat" and that seniority was being abrogated, yada yada yada. APA finally put an end to it and from then on, you are stuck as either FO or FB, and it's off to the sim every three months if you haven't gotten a landing.
Cool to see how different airlines run the system.
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