.....ooooohh, a bit techy aren't we? Sure, all the FO's I fly with are ace's. Cathay only hires the best..... All those ex Beech 1900 skippers are really the 'best of the best'. Lucky for CX they were available instead of all those ex BA/BC/QA/BM 747/DC10/etc drivers they managed to get in the 80's and early 90's.