Originally Posted by
Pineapple Guy
Carl, you're missing the fact that alfa was talking about 777s, not 747s. We have 18 777s and on the Feb category list 627 pilots, for an average of 34.8 pilots/acft.
I guess that's what threw me. The 744 and the 777 have the same mission. Nearly every time it takes off, it is with a crew of 4 - just like the 777. Yet the 744 has 28 pilots per aircraft, compared to the 777 at 35 pilots per aircraft.
Originally Posted by
Pineapple Guy
So, alfa rounded it to 4x when apparently its actually about 3.1 -- still pretty significant difference.
"Rounding" up from 3.1 to 4 isn't rounding...it's exaggerating.
Carl