BEagle
_____That's easy enough to answer..
It was bolleaux.
A complete waste of money as well._____
BEagle whilst I bow to your obvious superior knowledge and command of the English language, after all I was only a A1 QFI/IRE/Trapper, the Maritime OCU using the Old Grey Lady always trained both pilots to fly from the LHS, as it did initially with the Nimrod. The thought in the kipper fleet was that equal shares was to the benefit of both pilots and the norm was to alternate take offs and landings and co-pilots were certainly not looked upon as an inferior species.
I fear from what I read that some members of the Transport fleets consider themselves to be superior to others, are we getting back to the "white gloves BOAC" from my youth.
Please don't come back with "back seat Captains", as I did what all Maritime skippers did, when in a tactical situation the Nav is the boss he has ALL the information (but don't start me on AEOs thats different!!)