Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
DL;
Depends. On an Asia flight I recently DHed on, I sat next to a FO who was going along for the entire trip. The LCA stated that the FO was not qualified until he gave him his line check and he was not going to do that until the leg home. Ergo, he could not sit up front with someone besides another LCA. SO this FO got to DH all over the world.
I find it weird, but this guy was doing it. No kidding.
I also had an entire rotation where all I did was dinner and a movie and augment. The other augment F/O and I would trade off use of the bunk. It was 12 days, DH-BOS-AMS-BOM-AMS-PDX-AMS-MEM-DH. It is correct to state that the new F/O is not qualified until his/her line check, usually the last leg. The only way to legally do breaks.