Chesty - I've just re-read your earlier post, and now fully understand what you were trying to say : "It's a minimum of 44 sectors, with a covering F/O present for as long as the Training Captain deems necessary."
Missing out the comma after 'sectors' meant that I misinterpreted your sentence, sorry to be pedantic.
By the way, the only reason I had 1 sector with a covering F/O was down to the fact that they had to position someone in to do it, and that person had already worked the earlies at his own base so could only fit 1 sector in, nothing at all to do with 'talent' as I spent the rest of that day in complete bewilderment. That was quite a few years ago though when the Company had absolutely no idea how to train and deal with Approved Course graduates.
With regard to the overly pedantic trainers, the rumour is partially correct, but that happened at least 2 years ago and the guys were simply given a talking to. One has moved fleets and the other is still a DHC8 trainer.
Last edited by RAFAT; 14th Aug 2006 at 05:04.