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
Pardon me if I was not clear enough here. All airlines I've been flying for have had som way to sign off to fly without safety pilot. I did not mean a line check, mostly it's just ticking a box in the training file saying something like "released from safety pilot".