but even an incompetent copilot is better than no copilot.
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In my community many say that they would rather have the extra 800#s of gas and that is in place of a competant WSO
I'm actually looking forward to flying with a co-pilot (well...being a co-pilot is more like it) and see what the differences are in the operations. Btw - believe me - once you got use to flying single seat you wouldn't have any problem handling ops. What is the single pilot pattern that you mentioned in your post?
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