PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Pilot qualification to operate in either pilot’s seat (EASA)
Old 14th May 2020, 18:47
  #25 (permalink)  
hueyracer
Guest
 
Posts: n/a
I understand your scenario-but how do you deal with that in real life?

Do a weather briefing, then decide who is taking which seat?
What if the wind changes during the flight?


There was an old document many years ago, stating that take offs and landings should be carried out by the Captains only, who would fly from the RHS (in most helicopter, that is the "PIC" - seat).

Reason behind that was the attention span and reaction time in an incident/accident situation.

The seconds it might take you to look for a switch that is not where you are used to because you are not sitting on your usual seat was sometimes leading to catastrophic scenarios..... Or let's talk about flights in bad weather at night, where some switches have to be moved "blind"...

There are pros and cons-but it helps looking at how the airlines are doing it....

They don't have Copilots fly in the "Captains seat" for a reason... And to me, that makes sense (like I said, with the exemptions I mentioned before..)..