Concorde Captain/FO duties
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Concorde Captain/FO duties
Hi folks,
Somebody told me recently that on the BA Concordes, Captain was always PF for every sector and F/O was always PNF (would call it PM these days). I expressed surprise at the time but in any footage, Captain does always appear to be flying. The checklist also appears to assign specific calls/checks to Captain and F/O, not PF/PNF. Can someone confirm or deny this? It would seem pretty gratuitous, as well as quite dull for an F/O years never actually flying the thing.
Cheers folks
Somebody told me recently that on the BA Concordes, Captain was always PF for every sector and F/O was always PNF (would call it PM these days). I expressed surprise at the time but in any footage, Captain does always appear to be flying. The checklist also appears to assign specific calls/checks to Captain and F/O, not PF/PNF. Can someone confirm or deny this? It would seem pretty gratuitous, as well as quite dull for an F/O years never actually flying the thing.
Cheers folks
Captain was always PF for every sector and F/O was always PNF
When I had a jump seat ride in a Concorde trip from/to a regional airport back in the days, the FO (please note) carried out a fully manual landing; it was stick and rudder stuff, right back to basics. I can still vividly recall my sheer terror as we appeared to be aiming for the middle of the 2,000m runway, way beyond the TDZ. Just as I got resigned to dying in a smoking hole in the village beyond the far end, the main wheels touched down in precisely the right place.
I understood that those joy-ride flights that BA did at regional airports, typically an hour or so for about £400 a head, were primarily to enable the pilots, RHS and LHS, to do the minimum landings to stay current, because this could not be done on scheduled services alone. The £40K income would not have gone very far towards the cost of each flight, even if the positioning legs from/to LHR were also sold, as they usually were.
I understood that those joy-ride flights that BA did at regional airports, typically an hour or so for about £400 a head, were primarily to enable the pilots, RHS and LHS, to do the minimum landings to stay current, because this could not be done on scheduled services alone. The £40K income would not have gone very far towards the cost of each flight, even if the positioning legs from/to LHR were also sold, as they usually were.
I understood that those joy-ride flights that BA did at regional airports, typically an hour or so for about £400 a head, were primarily to enable the pilots, RHS and LHS, to do the minimum landings to stay current, because this could not be done on scheduled services alone.
