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Old 13th Mar 2011, 21:43
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Wiley
 
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A mate of mine is a widebody captain with a major Asian carrier. Two years ago now, he flew (heavy crew) with another captain, an Indian, who was a recently arrived DEC, supposedly from the airline I was then working for where he'd supposedly been a 777 captain.

My mate was so appalled with this "captain's" standard of operation, he asked me if I knew the man and whether he had maybe left my airline under a cloud.

I didn't know him, but checked the seniority list (current and old ones) just to make sure.

No such name, and I asked around among the trainers and checkies and no one had ever heard of him.

Many years ago now (20+), I did an interview sim. ride, where one of the other pilots being interviewed with me was an Indian A320 "captain". Long story short: he crashed the simulator (an A300) quite spectaculalry because he had no idea how to trim the aircraft after an engine failure.

I strongly suspect there's a very large Parker Pen factory somewhere in India.
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