Currently flying Boeing AND Airbus

[PifPaf]

Hi folks,

Does anyone know if there is any recommendation not to keep flying Airbuses and Boeings at the same time?
Somebody told me that there was an instruction disencouraging pilots to stay current on sidestick and CWS together.
Does anyone know anything about this? Is there any happy guy here flying, for instance, 737 and A319?
Thanks!

PP

[alexban]

I don't think there are people flying both types on the same time,I remember seeing once a recomandation from airbus not to rate a boeing captain direct as an airbus captain,due to many differences between the 2 planes (eg. fbw, crm involved,cockpit display ....,not only cws and sidestick)
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[mono]

The airline I work for carried out an experiment with the blessing of the CAA to run a trial with a few of its captains multiple (and concurrently) rated. This was on B757/767 and A320/321. The Boeing fleet manager was certainly flying concurrently on both 'cos I met his inbound on a 75 and departed him on a 320 a few days later. I queried it as I thought that pilots were not allowed to concurrently fly different types unless they were considered 'variants' (i.e 757 with 767 or A319/320/321 family).

Not sure what the outcome of the trial was though.

[KingoftheRoad]

I currently fly Boeing 737-300 & 500 alternately with Airbus

A321,320 and in Jan/Feb '04, A319 !!



Roger Miller. :ok: