Originally Posted by
dr dre
It’s funny how everyone seems to have lots of stories of all these “retired airline pilots” who suddenly decide to take up strenuous single pilot GA careers on retirement en masse. I’ve known plenty of retired airline pilots, every single one of them upon retirement from their airline retires from full time work full stop. A few take up something like casual instructing or scenic flights but a new career in a demanding single pilots job generally aimed at younger people??
Isn't that the truth, any Airline Pilot that has been in a multicrew airline operation for the last 20+ years and nothing else has zero chance of going back to a commercial single pilot IFR job.
They all think they can though, myself included. About the only way back to single pilot IFR in anything high performance is in your own aircraft, even then it takes 6 months to get back up to speed, there is so much you have to do and think about yourself, if you ever knew how to do it in the first place. Hands up anyone who has built their own one engine out departure obstacle clearance flight path procedure. (aircraft type specific) or built a flight plan from scratch for that matter.