Did Channex or was it Atlantic (a British airline?), which received approval for using only TWO pilots to fly the Electra-with no Flight Engineer(!)? Even an old two-engine jet can be quite a workload on shorter legs and/or with weather: I still fly them, by choice-not just because of much higher 'seat seniority' (also more two and three-day trips). Our only so-called automation is airspeed/mach hold, altitude hold and ILS coupling.
How was this two-person operation considered possible on the Electra (I flew the C-130 for a short while)? I read somewhere on Pprune about a training accident during landing.
Last edited by Ignition Override; 27th March 2005 at 05:10.