Originally Posted by
EWRflyr
Been on the 737 for over 18 years with 13.5 of those as an FO. How is being a 737 FO hard? That’s not being condescending or out of touch since I flew in that seat a long time. The only “hard” part of being the FO was adapting to the various captains and sometimes a captain’s multiple personalities within a day or even a flight. But, I would argue, that is true on every fleet.
Each seat has its own challenges and being a captain involves a lot more management and coordination of many more personnel and departments. I’d peg NBCA just a fraction “harder” than being an FO…and I find being a captain EASY.
Well ,poor wording on my part. it's not that it's "hard" as in it's difficult, but it's the busiest seat at the airline. Maybe that's a better way of putting it. My point was that it's a "harder, busier, more tasks etc" whatever you want to call it job than being a CA. Yes being a CA holds more responsibility but the day to day job of an F/O is more work. I spent a total of 13 years combined in the right seat of (sf-340,erj-145,320,737) and about 10 years as a CA on the 320. Being an F/O is more work period, especially at UAL. (My opinion only and you know what they say about those, lol )