oh buy the way its a true story as told to me by an ex fe who was on the deck when it happened.
yr right,
I still do not believe the story. If your F/E was actually there, he should be able to name names, airline etc ---- prove your story.
In any event, it does prove that it couldn't have been me, as all but about 100 hours of my heavy command time was on aircraft where we had dispensed with the F/E as dead weight.
And just to add a little more information for you, in my airlines, pilots have always been required to be capable of covering the F/E duties on turbine aircraft, the reverse is not so. Indeed, with the introduction of jets, many airlines, world wide, replaced the F/E with a pilot.
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