Tuesday, May 31, 2011

The Non Pilot

This is totally not a photography post but if you can make it through the post you will either be LOLWROTF or think pilots are a bunch of nut-jobs.
Anyhow, we are working on a project that has to do with resetting how we as a pilot group accomplish the many tasks required to accomplish a flight. We hit a slight roadblock in a meeting today that created more questions than answers (not having an agenda for the meeting may have contributed to the outcome). So later on this afternoon I received the following statement from one of the meeting attendees. With the "BA" in the intro, I will assume it is an excerpt from a British Airways manual. Enjoy if you can keep up.

The titles P1, P2, and Co-Pilot will now cease to have any meaning, within the BA operations manuals. They are to be replaced by:
Handling Pilot,
Non-handling Pilot,
Handling Landing Pilot,
Non-Handling Landing Pilot,
Handling Non-Landing Pilot, and
Non Handling Non-Landing Pilot.

The Landing Pilot, is initially the Handling Pilot and will handle the take-off and landing except in role reversal when he is the Non-Handling Pilot for taxi until the Handling Non-Landing Pilot, hands the handling to the Landing Pilot at eighty knots. The Non-Landing (Non-Handling, since the Landing Pilot is handling) Pilot reads the checklist to the Handling Pilot until after Before Descent Checklist completion, when the Handling Landing Pilot hands the handling to the Non-Handling Non-Landing Pilot who then becomes the Handling Non-Landing Pilot.

The Landing Pilot is the Non-Handling Pilot until the "decision altitude" call, when the Handling Non-Landing Pilot hands the handling to the Non-Handling Landing Pilot, unless the latter calls "go-around", in which case the Handling Non-Landing Pilot, continues Handling and the Non-Handling Landing Pilot continues non-handling until the next call of "land" or "go-around", as appropriate.

In view of the recent confusion over these rules, it was deemed necessary to restate them clearly.

Take care all... Doug




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