peeush
2nd May 2013, 08:30
Hi,
This is about the requirements of switching cockpits as captain of production helicopters/small airplanes for customer based operations.
Notwithstanding the requirements of regulatory authorities on the subject, I feel that in addition to basic requirements of safe aircraft handling, dealing with aircraft emergency situations, adapting to the 'new' cockpit for achieving adequate situational awareness needs to be considered.
A safe bet may be avoiding flying more than one cockpit in a 24 hour cycle, assuming that the pilot is cleared as first pilot on all types under discussion.
Understandably other factors like pilot competency, time of operation, mission profile, multi-crew cockpit etc would influence the subject, but reasonable assumptions may be made for posting comments that may be supported by opinions of respective regulatory authorities.
Thanks
P.S Since I didn't get adequate opinions on the subject on a different forums, I'm trying my luck here.
This is about the requirements of switching cockpits as captain of production helicopters/small airplanes for customer based operations.
Notwithstanding the requirements of regulatory authorities on the subject, I feel that in addition to basic requirements of safe aircraft handling, dealing with aircraft emergency situations, adapting to the 'new' cockpit for achieving adequate situational awareness needs to be considered.
A safe bet may be avoiding flying more than one cockpit in a 24 hour cycle, assuming that the pilot is cleared as first pilot on all types under discussion.
Understandably other factors like pilot competency, time of operation, mission profile, multi-crew cockpit etc would influence the subject, but reasonable assumptions may be made for posting comments that may be supported by opinions of respective regulatory authorities.
Thanks
P.S Since I didn't get adequate opinions on the subject on a different forums, I'm trying my luck here.