Originally Posted by
Centaurus
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.
Uhhhh-huh, worked great. Like in Tenerife, the captain was doing it all. Didn't need the co-pilot, who was still copying an ATC clearance, what the heck, it wasn't time to pull the gear up, so who cares if the guy in the RHS was a part of the crew? Didn't need to listen to the flight engineer who was busy trying to call his attention to the fact that they didn't have take off clearance and there was another 747 on the runway.
Yep, good old-school captain, doin' it all by himself, including killing 583 people, pretty much all by himself. Mainly, because he *was* doing it all by himself. Those were the days.