Separately, the agency is working on the broadest rewrite of training rules in decades, and it also has proposed revising experience requirements for new copilots. ❋ Andy Pasztor (2011)
When the captain of Flight 447 went to the cabin for a routine rest break prior to the start of the emergency, the reports says he left two copilots in the cockpit without clearly designating which one was in command of the jetliner, and "without specifying the conditions that would require his early return." ❋ Andy Pasztor (2011)
He has movie set experience, and Michelle copilots their deftly navigated tours. ❋ Karen Dalton-Beninato (2012)
As it turned out, according to investigators, the more senior of the copilots apparently became distracted in the middle of the emergency by repeatedly trying to summon the captain back to the cockpit. ❋ Andy Pasztor (2011)
The report found that the two copilots had no training for dealing with unreliable air speed indicators at high altitude, or in flying the plane manually under such conditions. ❋ Max Colchester (2011)
In a general sense, according to the document released early Thursday on the BEA's Website, the copilots informed the captain they "had lost control of the airplane and had tried everything" to regain safe flight. ❋ Andy Pasztor (2011)
Unable to figure out their dangerous predicament, the copilots failed to make verbal callouts of essential items such as speed, altitude or the angle of the plane's nose. ❋ Andy Pasztor (2011)
The report also recommends giving new copilots an opportunity to observe routine line operations from the jump seat. ❋ Andy Pasztor (2011)
"Neither of the two copilots gave him a precise summary of the problems encountered, nor of the actions" they had taken, the report says. ❋ Andy Pasztor (2011)
Investigators also said that starting with the early struggle to control the aircraft, "there was no explicit task-sharing between the two copilots." ❋ Max Colchester (2011)
That lapse, according to the report, "may have led to the non-optimal task-sharing observed between" the copilots. ❋ Andy Pasztor (2011)
That was where Marine Major James H. Schaefer and fifteen other handpicked U.S. military pilots and copilots found themselves the night of Thursday, April 24, 1980. ❋ Richard Whittle (2010)
Those seconds, though, gave Macdonald and his copilots some hairy moments. ❋ Richard Whittle (2010)
* A total of 646 pilots, 487 copilots, 496 flight engineers and 126 mechanics were trained at Great Falls during the airlift. ❋ RICHARD REEVES (2010)
One group was instructed to take a midflight forty-minute nap, during which their copilots took over for them. ❋ Tony Schwartz (2010)
They found that captains and copilots possessed excellent technical knowledge and flying knowhow but also had close to zero ability to speak to one another about errors and, where possible, to solve them within the flight crew team. ❋ Jan U. Hagen (2010)
Fifteen of the copilots were less than a year out of flight school. ❋ Barrett Tillman (2010)
We would be the copilots until we learned how the CSH flew, then we would move into the left seat and be in charge. ❋ Dr. Dave Hnida (2010)
