Originally Posted by
GPullR
Sorry you are completely wrong about this. It's about the responsibility and quarterbacking bad situations that flying once every 60 days doesn't allow for a safe operation. ALPA was adamantly against letting IPs fly as captains that's why there is a restriction in it. You will see in about 3 weeks.
interesting that the same people who barely fly because they are on flight loss pay but when they do fly, they fly as captains, are so against PIs flying as captains.
I say, that any PI who meets the normal requirements to upgrade and restricted from flying as a Captain because of some idiotic restriction in the new contract, should also be able to refuse to train new captains or sit seat support in the left seat. I mean the logic just doesn’t check out.
it ridiculous to think that it’s ok for a pilot who is not even off probation and has 350 hrs in type can upgrade under the new contract but a PI who might have a couple thousand hrs in type would be forced to fly as first officer for the said 350 hr wonder they just trained.