Nicholas49
6th Feb 2011, 18:52
Hello
I'm not really sure which is the correct forum for this question, but I'll try here. It's a bit unusual, so hope that's OK!
Last Saturday, I flew from London Luton to Geneva with easyJet. When the Captain introduced the crew before our departure, he said he was joined on the Flight Deck by 'fellow Captain 'A' [obviously I will not write his real name]' and First Officer 'B'. Nothing untoward in having two captains on the flight deck, I thought to myself, drawing on some PPruNe knowledge ;).
However, the thing that did make me go 'eh?' was this. I am 95% certain that First Officer 'B', when making a top of descent PA, introduced himself as 'Captain B'. How am I certain? Because his surname was fairly distinctive and I do listen carefully to such announcements (perhaps more than your average passenger).
I completely recognise that I may have misheard, or that possibly there was a name muddle in the first PA. But what I wanted to ask is: do you guys know of any circumstances in which two pilots could introduce themselves as the Captain?
As an unrelated question, am I correct in thinking that the reason there were two captains (whoever they were) on the Flight Deck was either:
- a line check where one guy was a training captain
- command upgrade training
- one of the captains was positioning to operate a flight from Geneva?
Given that this was a Luton-based crew and it was a Boeing 737-700, is any one of the above reasons more likely than the others?
Thanks as ever,
Nick
I'm not really sure which is the correct forum for this question, but I'll try here. It's a bit unusual, so hope that's OK!
Last Saturday, I flew from London Luton to Geneva with easyJet. When the Captain introduced the crew before our departure, he said he was joined on the Flight Deck by 'fellow Captain 'A' [obviously I will not write his real name]' and First Officer 'B'. Nothing untoward in having two captains on the flight deck, I thought to myself, drawing on some PPruNe knowledge ;).
However, the thing that did make me go 'eh?' was this. I am 95% certain that First Officer 'B', when making a top of descent PA, introduced himself as 'Captain B'. How am I certain? Because his surname was fairly distinctive and I do listen carefully to such announcements (perhaps more than your average passenger).
I completely recognise that I may have misheard, or that possibly there was a name muddle in the first PA. But what I wanted to ask is: do you guys know of any circumstances in which two pilots could introduce themselves as the Captain?
As an unrelated question, am I correct in thinking that the reason there were two captains (whoever they were) on the Flight Deck was either:
- a line check where one guy was a training captain
- command upgrade training
- one of the captains was positioning to operate a flight from Geneva?
Given that this was a Luton-based crew and it was a Boeing 737-700, is any one of the above reasons more likely than the others?
Thanks as ever,
Nick