Clunkdriver, what I find weird is when I was first learning to fly in multi crew airplanes we were called co-pilots and we never felt the description to be demeaning.
Maybe it was because we were flying those old technology airplanes like DC3's and DC6's in the arctic doing approaches guided by ADF's after getting in range of the beacons using astro compasses to find the beacons?
Yeh, that has to be it because when we got visual there was no paved runway to land on just a row of runway markers on the snow or the ice and if it was at night we only had flare pots as runway lights.
How dumb of me not to realize we were not real pilots in those days, we were only co-pilots.
Sh.t I should know better than question todays real pilots.
