Narrow to wide requirements for your airline
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Narrow to wide requirements for your airline
Hi guys,
Here in the middle east Captains require 500 hours PIC on a narrow body before we are able to transition over to a widy body. Seems a little low to me. Just curious what the requirements are at your airline?
Cheers
Here in the middle east Captains require 500 hours PIC on a narrow body before we are able to transition over to a widy body. Seems a little low to me. Just curious what the requirements are at your airline?
Cheers
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The 500 hour requirement would seem low to me also if a pilot's experience consisted of starting as a pay for training "Cadet", then flying immediately the right seat with the minimum hours, and leading up to his potential wide body upgrade had rarely flown without the autopilot above 1000 AGL.
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I came from Emirates a few years ago. Their automation policy was one of being a robot: "maximum use of automation...". That meant not being able to hand fly above 10,000 ft... ever! Autopilot shall be used above 10,000ft.
They are trained to become robots without thinking too much. Not even looking at the synoptic when you had an EICAS message to see what was really going on. Simply told to follow the checklist in it's entirety. Be a robot... don't think.
So glad I left that slave ship operation with their 100 hours a month crossing more time zones in a month than all other airlines do in a year!
Other than that, it was a great gig! :-)
Kap
They are trained to become robots without thinking too much. Not even looking at the synoptic when you had an EICAS message to see what was really going on. Simply told to follow the checklist in it's entirety. Be a robot... don't think.
So glad I left that slave ship operation with their 100 hours a month crossing more time zones in a month than all other airlines do in a year!
Other than that, it was a great gig! :-)
Kap
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How is flying a Widebody any different than flying a Narrowbody?
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I came from Emirates a few years ago. Their automation policy was one of being a robot: "maximum use of automation...". That meant not being able to hand fly above 10,000 ft... ever! Autopilot shall be used above 10,000ft.
They are trained to become robots without thinking too much. Not even looking at the synoptic when you had an EICAS message to see what was really going on. Simply told to follow the checklist in it's entirety. Be a robot... don't think.
So glad I left that slave ship operation with their 100 hours a month crossing more time zones in a month than all other airlines do in a year!
Other than that, it was a great gig! :-)
Kap
They are trained to become robots without thinking too much. Not even looking at the synoptic when you had an EICAS message to see what was really going on. Simply told to follow the checklist in it's entirety. Be a robot... don't think.
So glad I left that slave ship operation with their 100 hours a month crossing more time zones in a month than all other airlines do in a year!
Other than that, it was a great gig! :-)
Kap
Robotic operation with a hint of draconian practices in management
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