Single pilot 797

[z987k]

@Autothrust Blue Maurus and I both work at the same company and he is spot on, I can't imagine working for a set of more untrustworthy flight safety managers than our current shop, the stuff I've learned in the last 18 months about so many of the processes at our shop is frankly horrifying, and the erosion of trust on the side of the average line pilot is warranted.

If you don't mind, who is your shop so that I never find myself on them?

Also - FAA Hotline Reporting Form
in case you need it.

 

[nibake]

I don’t understand this argument about Flight Engineers.

Yeah, not at all trying to argue that it is analogous, but trying to show an example of how long that process took from start to finish. It's one thing to acknowledge that more automation and fewer pilots is something in the works now or in the near future. It's a whole 'nother to think that suddenly all our jobs are going to go away. My mandatory retirement is in the second half of this century and I'm feeling fine.

 

[MikeD]

Meanwhile navigators are totally dead as a species. There's not even a way to get the certificate any more.

Not sure if there are any remaining feds in existance who could give the ride. Mil Comp from having been a rated USAF/USN navigator is probably the only way to get the FAA cert.

 

[MikeD]

First, they’re a pilot, not a FE. Second, modern training,

Do you mean in terms of cockpit position, or individual qualification? Am asking because the vast majority of FEs were Second Officers......were pilots. As opposed to PFEs who were non-pilot FEs. If that was what you were referring to...but if not, disregard the above then.

 

[ppragman]

Not sure if there are any remaining feds in existance who could give the ride. Mil Comp from having been a rated USAF/USN navigator is probably the only way to get the FAA cert.

From what I was reading you can't even do that anymore because the FAA requires a CELNAV practical...

 

[ppragman]

Some Fed should be able to do it. I always thought it'd be a fun one.

I'd get it if I could. I don't know where you could even get the rating.

 

[z987k]

I'd get it if I could. I don't know where you could even get the rating.

Study and present yourself to a Fed examiner?

 

[ppragman]

Study and present yourself to a Fed examiner?

When I was reading about this there is no one qualified to give the checkride anymore.

 

[ppragman]

Study and present yourself to a Fed examiner?

63.55 would be kind of hard to comply with too - you can only count 100hrs of flight time as a pilot.