RAT 5
Going back crews flew together and with BA it could take many years to achieve the position of Captain
Now Pilots are trained to a standard and in some ways not to think for themselves and rarely fly with the same crew.
The principal being to have cloned crew who can mix and match
That picture has to be a bit of a marketing exercise as its unlikely they will come across each other very much as Captain FO
My son flies for EasyJet first on the 737 and then Airbus at the age of 19 through CTC He was 26/27 when he moved to Captain.
There were inevitable comments from PAX at 19 and his first solo Captain flight had me worried but probably because we all think of our kids as kids
I always see myself as the disaster area MK1 and him the perfected MK2 version but we are both pilots ))
Last edited by Pace; 27th Sep 2016 at 10:32.