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Old 02-16-2024 | 02:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Meme In Command
Those who have flown3 and 4 pilot long haul: as the junior FO, is it harder to get landings on 4 pilot trips?

This was pre-rona (330), so a bit dated as things may have changed. Almost every 4-pilot trip I did, the captain split it so everyone got an event. For example, the Captain I was paired with would takeoff, then I would land. On the flight back to the states, the other 2 did the same thing. Worked great if all you did was 4 pilot trips, which for the most part, was all these guys did. Otherwise, most of our flying in DTW was 3-pilot, so it just really threw off my numbers. Let's see, I need 1 takeoff and 2 landings lol.

When it came to senior vs junior, I never really saw that much. Normally the Captain just looked at the currencies and as long someone wasn't trying to go to bounces, he'd divvy everything out based on who needed them the most. I even had one captain that gave both legs to us FO's because he had just finished CQ and was good. Where it got tough was on the 6 days, when you floated between crews and was the odd man out. They had already made the plan and often you weren’t part of that plan. I regularly flew outside of work, so it didn't bother me much to go to bounces. The pilots who go to bounces are probably the most current pilots out there.
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