back into an era of 3 pilots in the cockpit?
Just a PPL here...
Wasn't it the case that Qantas used to have a policy that a low-hour junior would sit as the third pilot observing (even domestic flights) the two seniors and learning? If we had this, we would: 1) third set of eyes during take off/landings to raise awareness of any anomalies 2) great way to learn for the junior 3) decreased chance of any kind of situation like we are presumably looking at here. ... I am expecting that everyone is gonna say: 'Utopia!, Money!'...Well, what would stand against making the junior spend some time in the jump seat as part of the required airline training (ok - pay him the cabin crew rate, but I am pretty sure, he/she will still be keen on learning..)...or am I missing something /