What? Exciting time to see the world?
Is that the requirement for the job, to want to see the world?
Had a crew member position with me to NYC recently, he had never been to NYC in any capacity previously but I had given him 48 hrs notice that he and I would be doing the first rotation out of NYC direct to HKG the next night. OK, so he turned up looking a bit tired. By top of climb he could hardly keep his eyes open. Turned out that he had 2 hours sleep in the 20 hours in NYC as there were 'required tourists things to do'...i.e. Anna Thompson's 'Exciting time to see the world' senario! Thanks Anna! He was a waste of space. Consequently it was single pilot IFR across the Pole until the 2 experienced (very competent FOs from previous experience and 20+ years of flying) took over.
I thought that 35 years ago, in an aircraft under 5700 kg, single pilot IFR had been confined to the past and now with 35 years as an Airline Pilot I find I am once again flying the same senario but with a 442,000KG aircraft and still flying single pilot IFR.
Spot the problem!