Squirrel29
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At RD we were running the 757 on charters for a little while before the ETOPS application began. Once the process started and the training program, etc, was complete we had to run "simulated" ETOPs flights.
They were on SFO-CUN, SFO-PVR, type routes that we just simulated the ETOPs procedures on even though it was over land. I want to say that we did the sim ETOPs routes for at least 6 months before we were able to start the proving runs to HI.
RD was 180 mins out of the box.
Yep I was at Pace and we had to do that. Once we did that we did the Hawaii proving run and was granted 180 minutes. I just now the FAA likes to see a history of runs before they will let you do etops.