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What a load of tosh ref the basic conversion to glass cockpit airliners.
I and many other in my old company went from clockwork cockpit 747 Classics to 747-400 in a little over 3 months from last flight in one to first revenue flight in the -400. All with no previous glass cockpit experience.
Its called a Conversion Course!!
Although it will be a steep step change of thinking for some. An experienced RAF AT driver I met last year could not believe that the first time most of us flew the 747-400 for real, was a revenue flight (under supervision of course) full of passengers, with no base training.
Basic TriStar/VC10 to A330 conversion would pose no problems, other than the lack of currency and the low amount of varied routes and sectors being experienced by some present RAF Transport crews.
Tactical training add ons, obviously will take longer.
PS
I am assuming in the above, that to get the fleet up and running ,initial A330 AT pilots will be drawn from experienced ex TriStar/VC10 crews. Ab Initio pilots ex King Air would obviously need a longer course with base training included.
Last edited by cessnapete; 31st Jan 2011 at 16:47.