Well, that's hardly surprising. A lot of aircraft only have nose wheel steering fitted on the left side so it is impossible for the first officer to taxi the aircraft.
Huh? My point was that in my opinion most ground taxi/wingtip incidents involve the left wing of the aircraft that hit something. How is this "hardly surprising"? Captain is taxiing from the left always - at least in U.S. - yet they don't often hit things with the right wing. Why is that? I'm an FO, and I look out and tell the captain when we look good, and now and then I suggest we stop because it doesn't look good. But when it is close on the left side, I can't see. Just have to trust we really have clearance. And lately in JFK and BOS there wasn't
I don't get what you mean but I'm not real smart either
