Another Mystry ?
Big BALLS
Approved to do a 'Night T/O and en-route' but not a night landing ?????????
- How the hell does Ryanair/Easyjet and all the other LCs survive with 200hr (ok 300hr) F/Os in 737/320s ?
Eagle required new pilots to have a min of 750TT ?
Ryanair/Easyjet take cadets with 200hrs and ONLY the min night hours required for licence issue.
We see no difference in their experience. Its all down to TRAINING.
A lot of new hires at Eagle had very limited night experience, new hires employed over summer would not have any night landings during their training, and night landings at WK, AP, GS, WU etc. are very different to landing at AA, WN or CH.
As stated earlier - EAGLE DOES NOT TRAIN. If Eagle did train, then before releasing a F/O to line, you would have done NIGHT CIRCUITS. All the acft are on the ground by 2030/2100 local so acft availability could not have been an excuse.
Night landings at WK,AP,GS,WU are different ??
- Sorry, lots of us here have landed at these airports at night. Nothing special?
One colleague here reminded us of the grand cinematic training video of 'How to land at Whangarei'. You know, the airport that Eagle landed illegally in the wet for years. Something about a 30ft threshold crossing height used to calculate the wet LDA but it seems there was no CAA authorisation ?
- I bet that video is not on You Tube!