Captains flying right seat?
 

Just curious to see what is standard at other company's. Does you contract or company allow captains to fly in the right seat? If so is there a time limit on when the resource is unavailable to the company?

Can you specify the company name also.

Thanks

Yup. Our company allows captains to sit right seat however; there is only one pilot in command. The captain sitting right seat assumes the role of the First Officer (naturally) but overall the guy sitting in the left seat has the final authority.

A while back an Airline (not going to mention name) had pilots listed as captains but in order to be compensated as such they had to fly x-amount of hours as PIC. The airline would have these pilots fly within 5-10hrs shy of the x-amount hrs needed to get captain pay and have them sit right seat the rest of the month. This of course was before the union.

At Mesa a captain can fly right seat, the more senior of the two captains is the PIC, both are compensated as normal captain rate at whatever longevity they have.

Which company is this?

RAH allows this at the captain's payrate for whatever their doh is. I think its great, same pay with no responsibility but thats just me.

Don't you have to be requal'd in the right-seat to do so?

I think its dangerous to assume that a captain will be just as good at being in the right seat, without training and recent experience

Is this just allowed for newly upgraded captain or can a senior guy get junior manned to do a flight in the right seat?

at RAH CA's are dual seat qualified and at each training event we are re-qualed in the right seat.

Ive had Captns senior to me who bid rsv have to sit right seat for me, regardless of seniority and i have sat right seat for Captns junior to me.

Does you company have any rules on management pilot flying with line pilots? From what i remember, Horizon didn't allow management pilot to fly revenue flight unless it was with a check airman.

Is this standard at other companies?