View Poll Results: Pilot Monitoring or Pilot Not Flying?
PM
25
59.52%
PNF
17
40.48%
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Pilot Monitoring or Pilot Not Flying
05-22-2009, 07:02 AM
#2
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Joined APC: Feb 2006
Position: B-737NG preferably in first class with a glass of champagne and caviar
Posts: 5,903
In a two man crew, what’s the difference between a Non Flying Pilot, and Monitoring Pilot???
Does the Pilot Not Flying read the checklist, tend to radio communications, read the paper, take a nap, eat his crew meal?
Or, does the Monitoring Pilot read the checklist, tend to radio communications, read the paper, take a nap, eat his crew meal?
Does the Pilot Not Flying read the checklist, tend to radio communications, read the paper, take a nap, eat his crew meal?
Or, does the Monitoring Pilot read the checklist, tend to radio communications, read the paper, take a nap, eat his crew meal?
05-22-2009, 07:09 AM
#3
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Joined APC: Jun 2007
Position: Legacy FO
Posts: 4,096
We don't define crew positions by what you don't do (PNF), but we do define crew positions by what you do (PM). As a PNF, I also am not serving drinks to the passengers, but you don't think of yourself as a PNFA, pilot not flight attending.
As a pilot, you are always "flying", or in better terms, responsible and in control of the aircraft, you might not be the one who is physically maneuvering it.
Perhaps if we had more PMs instead of Pilots Not Flying, we wouldn't have some of these stupid accidents.
As a pilot, you are always "flying", or in better terms, responsible and in control of the aircraft, you might not be the one who is physically maneuvering it.
Perhaps if we had more PMs instead of Pilots Not Flying, we wouldn't have some of these stupid accidents.
05-22-2009, 08:49 AM
#5
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Joined APC: May 2006
Position: 737 FO
Posts: 466
Originally Posted by KC10 FATboy
We don't define crew positions by what you don't do (PNF), but we do define crew positions by what you do (PM). As a PNF, I also am not serving drinks to the passengers, but you don't think of yourself as a PNFA, pilot not flight attending.
As a pilot, you are always "flying", or in better terms, responsible and in control of the aircraft, you might not be the one who is physically maneuvering it.
Perhaps if we had more PMs instead of Pilots Not Flying, we wouldn't have some of these stupid accidents.
As a pilot, you are always "flying", or in better terms, responsible and in control of the aircraft, you might not be the one who is physically maneuvering it.
Perhaps if we had more PMs instead of Pilots Not Flying, we wouldn't have some of these stupid accidents.
05-22-2009, 08:53 AM
#6
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Joined APC: Sep 2008
Position: 737 right seat
Posts: 262
Originally Posted by Moose
Cool! Now that I can be a PM, I won't get in an accident. Last sim, when I had a flight control malfunction, I was actively flying and monitoring. My co-pilot had his head in a checklist and the computer getting the plane set up for landing. I don't really care for the change. It is window dressing.
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