Thanks
misd-agin
Black art? No, but it's somewhat different.
Thanks for the examples. I suppose more pointedly my question is how long would it take, say a European short haul Captain, to pick up those differences during training and would they really be safe and up to speed at the end of their line training. Would it take an inordinately long time to train someone up to speed in these things?
It was mentioned on another thread else where but some of the apparently more experienced long haul bods dismissed it as being completely impossible and that their experienced long haul F/Os would need to spend a lot of time showing them the ropes.
The status quo is that you take someone with previous wide body experience but I am just wondering if it is possible from a safety and training point of view to do it or should you really have lots of long haul time already at least in the right seat.