Relief Or Cruise Pilots

[Hawker rider]

I want to add the same to the "logging actual"

It does not matter! once you sit inside an airline like that it has no value how much more actual time you are going to log, once you have a 777 typerating with 1000 hours in the left seat do you think anybody would frown on your actual-IFR time?

I didn't think so

 

[neil armstrong]

In Europe people dont ask for "actual" time.
As soon as i started flying here i stoped longing it!
How long you will be a coco depends on thje airline ,i know a guy in KLM who is already a coco for more then 4 years! but he doesnt want to upgrade this way he sits in a firstclass seat most of the time is highest seniority and gets the best chance to chat up the cabin crew before the make it to where ever they are going.
they stay current in the sim with extra sim sessions ,most of them (at KLM) come from there own flight school and have maybe 250/300 hrs.

Neil

 

[Hawker rider]

I've heard that at KLM it is possible to be in the CoCo seat (SO) for up to eight years. Normally they move on from Coco to FO 737. not too long ago they had to move people from Coco to 737 Co-pilot and result was that the F/O's whose place they had to take had to go back again to Coco!!