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Old 29th Aug 2006, 13:16
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winkle
 
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all the planes in my company are 2 crew glass and in fact in most modern outfits are although some of the less modern aircraft still have flight engineers ( i would still welcome them back even now- salt of the earth and all that). what about captains only landings at certain airfields. also i am sure that on a ship if the steering bloke keels over then the skipper would be able to take over and land without too much drama. dont see the point of a loadie being skipper on a j, or even one of the ftr controllers on the airborne bunker. as for having skipper in jump seat whilst having .... well what a waste of money.
lets face it ,should have tried harder during training or bought an atpl then you get to be captain - one day (+the big pay cheque)
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