Single pilot helicopter with 2 pilots flying
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That's a good curve ball, It happened to me where 3 rated pilots were flying 2 single pilot aircraft, we were "double crewing" 2 aircraft 1 B204 and one B205, those 2 aircraft went non-stop for 16 hours a day everyday (short term) we did one entry for the date on one line with our names in each journey log, we were using split duty at the time. Difference here is there was only one pilot at a time in each aircraft with dual controls installed, everybody was flying left seat (Bucketing). Our flight time was recorded in our "Flight Duty" record for the day.
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Think about a Check Pilot being checked giving a check ride to a pilot!
It can get difficult re who sits where and their respective duties. 76 for example can be flown single pilot, from the right of course. In two crew normally the command guy sits on the right. An operator who uses the aircraft for military SAR work has auto hover capability and procedures require the command to sit in the left.
Never really understood the US Army command guys sitting in the left on Huey slicks. The only explanation I ever received was due to the better visibility with the cut off instrument panel on that side. Me? I always flew right seat, as I wanted to be able to be able to reach everything with the left hand, radios, fuel, hydraulics etc. Even though slicks flew two pilot, it could hardly be called a two pilot operation, merely two for redundancy.
Never really understood the US Army command guys sitting in the left on Huey slicks. The only explanation I ever received was due to the better visibility with the cut off instrument panel on that side. Me? I always flew right seat, as I wanted to be able to be able to reach everything with the left hand, radios, fuel, hydraulics etc. Even though slicks flew two pilot, it could hardly be called a two pilot operation, merely two for redundancy.
The other day I logged 6.5 hours of thirty-seventh-in-command time (all multi engine turbine IFR), riding in the back of a 767
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It can get difficult re who sits where and their respective duties
No-its fairly simple-just RTFM.
The RFM clearly states the minimum crew required, and which seat to be flown in.
In the case of a Bell 212, it usually says "Minimum crew is one pilot, flying in the right hand seat".
If you want to fly single pilot from the left hand seat, make sure your Ops Manual says so-and you´re legal to fly.
The "habit" of putting two pilots (or even three) into a single pilot helicopter, all logging "multi PIC time" led to the problems we are having nowadays with two "experienced" crew in the cockpit of REAL multi-pilot operations, both unable to work together, as "CRM" is something they only heard about once...
There are other Authorities than the UK CAA.
Where you are operating and under whose laws/regulations determines the answer to many of the questions posed in this thread.
This being an "international" forum drawing folks from all over this Blue/Green Orb we inhabit...there are more than one right answer to many of these questions.
Sometimes multiple authorities do agree but not always.
Where you are operating and under whose laws/regulations determines the answer to many of the questions posed in this thread.
This being an "international" forum drawing folks from all over this Blue/Green Orb we inhabit...there are more than one right answer to many of these questions.
Sometimes multiple authorities do agree but not always.
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SASless, the best clue was the inclusion of "EASA" in the original post. The UK complies with EASA (SERA) rules these days.
Helicopter flying goes on all over the World....most probably outside EASA making EASA just another subset of Codified Rules. Hard to accept I know but that is life.
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