PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - VC 10 on Route 66
View Single Post
Old 18th Feb 2004, 13:54
  #41 (permalink)  
BEagle
 
Join Date: May 1999
Location: Quite near 'An aerodrome somewhere in England'
Posts: 26,871
Received 340 Likes on 119 Posts
KennyR - I never did a Belize run as I only did trash-and-grunt hauling in my last couple of years. Before that it was AAR and all training associated therewith! As AT trainers, we only ever did a 'quickie' Dulles, never the longer Dulles-Belize runs which the sqns kept for themslves!

Interestingly, I've just learned that the Canucks don't train their AAR co-pilots to control formations or manage AAR the way the RAF does. They just fly the ac and talk (hopefully not very often) to ATC whilst the captain moves the receivers and clears them for contact etc. Main reason being that they do so little AAR that supposedly it isn't feasible to train both pilots to the same level. It's even the case that if the captain has to leave the flight deck, the co-pilot isn't allowed to move the receivers abooot at all! The joys of multi-role...eh?

Last edited by BEagle; 18th Feb 2004 at 20:14.
BEagle is online now