Originally Posted by
MaydayMark
The early analog PanAm A300's had a "flight engineer." They used to say that they read the newspaper between preflights (Airbus had designed them to be flown by a 2-man crew
). They had a (fully automated) FE panel!*?
DHL/Astar operated A300B4 with a SO until July 2009. Like you said Mark not much to do except preflight.