Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
Thanks for the detailed description HSLD. I am just now beginning to dig into this multi-crewed concept, having been a single seat guy my entire career and even when instructing we taught a single seat mentality. I never would have guessed that there would have been a change of controls during the approach brief.
Coming from the single-seat background where you are quite adept at multi-tasking, it must seem odd to hand-off the jet. However, if you frame it as "you have two heads in the cockpit - use them" it makes more sense.
One guy can mind the store (fly) and the other guy can do something else. This is really a luxury during an emergency - one guy flys the jet and the other guy runs checklists and pushes buttons. The key here - someone is always flying the airplane and as long as you have two pilots, why not divy-up the work.