Thechitternflyer
Would disagree ...in my last company we flew manually in bad weather where there wasn't the risk of meeting VFR traffic and because it needed higher skill levels hence better training.
It was also the captain who did the outside check unless we carried a FE...and nothing stopped the FO from doing his own walk around.
We spent an evening in the hangar with the engineers going around the airframe during transition course and we were checked on our annual route check.
Sadly BA has continued some of the practices from the 70s and downgraded others.
One of those is the non flying pilot operating the throttles...what the report says about heading loss poses the questions whether they would have passed an. IR renewal and whether the apparent yaw angles could have overstressed the fin?
As a crew they would have failed a sim check wrt the fuel leak and shutting the engine down.
Sadly it isn't an isolated incident by far...their other latest misdemeanour at Joburg where the other two monitored Junior writing off a 747 is another example of a lack of training and following SOP.
Someone needs to look at their overall operation before their luck runs out.