Originally Posted by
Centaurus
DC3 on floats. None of this "Area of Responsibility" stuff you have in Boeing and Airbus. The captain does the lot including starting while the co-pilot stands by for gear(?) and flaps and makes the radio calls. Was forever thus and it worked well.
I am old enough to have flown with the "gear up, shutup" school of Aircraft Captains, the only good thing I got from that was a lesson on how not to be a good captain.
In my airplane I
use my copilot because a good 2 crew operation will always be better than a Captain and a passenger......