You are still not qualified to fill whatever position (PIC/SIC) on that particular flight unless you've been signed off for it by your operator.
So, if a 'supervising' first officer is present for the first 4 sectors or so, how does the above comment reconcile with the fact that the first officer being trained is not 'signed off by the operator' until the line training is complete - which will take a minimum of 20 sectors and probably more for an inexperienced pilot - with no safety pilot/supervising first officer present for the majority of the training? Signing off to fly without a safety pilot is one thing, but being signed off as 'qualified'/line training complete surely quite another?
In my experience the First Officer under training has always booked the time as P2 or PICU/S and the supervising first officer as SNY - including me during my early days with my respective airlines. The operators have always been happy with that.
Is this situation a 'European' rather than UK practice?
FOK
