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Old 2nd Nov 2008, 18:56
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Tony Hirst
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Aerospace,
Is it safe to send a young low hour graduate to the other side of the world to fly in a country where the other crew members speak a different language...CRM??

I can picture it now: highly experienced captain of asian airline sat next to a plucky 20 yr old FO from england with no actual experience flying jets.... And theyre on approach through a tropical storm to some tin pot airfield...

And not to forget it is a 'low cost' operation.
I'm not a plucky 20 year old, but your scenario is otherwise exactly my current situation (not Air Asia though). SE Asia is generally a high threat environment, inspite of this our operations are safe - the often quoted Asian CRM 'issue' is in my experience completely unjustified.

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