Captains flying RHS
 

Question for anyone out there operating multi-crew types.

Does your organisation allow Line Captains (ie not check or training) to fly in the RHS on normal revenue flights? If so, under what circumstances, eg is a route check required or some sort of currency?

Is there any legal requirement to be proficient only in one seat or the other, or both?

An airline I work for sim checks line captains in the RHS on a regular basis, and thoroughly.

Allows the airline to crew flights in the circumstances where no F/Os are available.

Biggest problem ends up being the RHS captain unable to do the paperwork properly 😂😂😂.

No biggie.


QUOTE=seneca208;9892494]Question for anyone out there operating multi-crew types.

Does your organisation allow Line Captains (ie not check or training) to fly in the RHS on normal revenue flights? If so, under what circumstances, eg is a route check required or some sort of currency?

Is there any legal requirement to be proficient only in one seat or the other, or both?[/QUOTE]

We are checked in the RHS but only operate as PM when sitting there, all handling sectors in LHS. UK based on 737.

The company I fly for has all the captains checked in both seats, not a problem for me once I have found the seat adjustment controls.......... the bonus being less paperwork and getting captain pay for FO responsibility.

QF have used it sporadically when circumstances have resulted in shortage of line F/Os and/ or excess Captains. Extra training for the captains concerned. PM only on line ops. No recency requirements except for a reaccreditation sim each year.

The chronic shortage at our airline has and always will be Captains. So, no! :ok:

Captain RHS
 

Same at my airline

10 minutes in the RHS during recurrent SIM training (V1 cut, turn downwind, hand flown engine-out ILS to a landing) enables a captain to be rostered in the RHS should the need arise

When the practice was implemented over a decade ago, most viewed it as a management hedge against junior pilots engaging in a union-sanctioned job action

Today, is is more likely that a worsening shortage of F/Os will be the reason

Should it occur, RHS PM duty only, like the previous poster I would assess the greatest hazard to be a mild CRM challenge during flight and a botched logbook entry post-flight

Fly safe

Two hours for us. Full F/O low vis qualification as well. We did multiple figure 8 circuits as a warm up before doing multiple V1 cuts and engine out approaches.

We do it a fair bit. I'd struggle to think of a month when I haven't done at least a couple of sectors in the RHS. Pretty obviously, it's normally when they run low on FOs during the bulges of days off requests. Once a year we jump in the RHS of the sim and do a normal take-off and landing, followed by a engine failure of some sort and a single-engine landing. No great shakes but have to remember to put the centreline through the left bollock and not the right :-)

Japan 767 (but they do it on all their fleets) and so does the competition.