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Old 19th Aug 2005, 17:46
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Max Angle
 
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This was done to death a few months ago in another thread. At our company any Captain who sits in the RH seat must have done a basic sim. check in that seat (Take-off, eng. fail, SE approach, SE G/A, SE landing) to be qualified. We are only allowed to PNF unless a trainer and I don't find it a problem. It certainly feels a little strange at first but the fact that you are (presumeably) an experienced and capable pilot in the first place (LH seat airline jet etc. etc.) means that you should be able cope easily. It's a sign of poor management, means you get dicked about more and I would just as soon log P1 time instead of P2 but it is not a safety issue in my opinion.

As said before, if you don't feel you can safely be PNF and P2 in the right hand seat of an aircraft on which you are checked out be a Captain you need to have a think about it, your not being asked to do much in comparison to what you normally do.
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