Who will command the AI 777s?
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: St. Charles, Missouri, USA
Age: 76
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For your professional development only: (Family, lifestyle, income, etc. are a secondary consideration). 1st stay on A320 in any seat until you have 2500 to 3000 hours. Why? Short sectors and lots of terminal area operations...think of any simulator training you've had...almost all of it is within 30 miles of an airport. If you go to widebody F/O you will see long sectors and few terminal operations...skills will take longer to develop. 2nd take A320 command, if only for one year. Why? Ground operations and taxi skills are easier learned on a narrowbody. It is a lot easier having 4 flight attendants yapping at you on the crew bus than 20, about your not so smooth runway turnoff/gate arrival. 3rd take any widebody seat. Once you have the terminal operations mastered, any difference in long-range, enroute procedures are easily learned, you will feel much more comfortable, and you will instill confidence in your fellow crewmembers. I would give the same advice to any 737 pilot with option to go to the 777. Nice to have choices, the future looks very bright for you. Timbob.
