Captains flying Right Seat...

[N1VIBS]

Comair...Ca's can not fly as FO's. Check Airmen are the only exception.

Same at ASA.

 

[SkiFishFly]

All our Capt's are given right seat task training each year. This allows them to fly from either seat. This needed when doing a heavy crew and also allows more flexibility in granting days off requests. This also menas more pilots are Captains

Did you ever think it also allows them to NOT hire the FOs they really need to properly staff the airline?

 

[DrewBlows]

At Compass Captain's can be assigned FO trips while on reserve, but can't be assigned right seat trips in lines.

 

[ROSWELL41]

At SkyWest, CA's are not qualified to fly in the right seat. If they run short, they pay F/O's 150%. End of story.

 

[GOULET!]

Captain's can fly as FOs at Compass because of lack of FO's. Happened alot in the past...not as much now since staffing is catching up.

 

[XJohXJ]

At Mesaba, CA's are effectively prohibited from flying as FO's. Needless to say, LCA's fly in whichever seat they need to for training/checking.

 

[Brasilia Flyer]

At SkyWest, CA's are not qualified to fly in the right seat. If they run short, they pay F/O's 150%. End of story.

Unless you're an LCA.

 

[trolleydriver]

At the company I was at (stoppped operating on June 30 this year) but an ALPA carrier, since the average life expectancy of an FO was about 4-5 months before they quit for greener pastures, we could never keep any FO's around -

So the company solution was to offer upgrade to everyone once they reached 1500tt - in the theory that once you made captain you were less likely to leave - whether there was a need for captains or not. (It did kind of work in the beginning.) At one point we had 160 captains to 75-80 FOs.

If you were senior enough, you got to fly as captain - if you weren't senior enough - you got reserve and maybe got to fly as captain when you covered for some captain's sick or vacation, but more than likely got to assigned to fly an unfilled FO's line at normal captain's pay. - which most people didn't care for - they wanted the turbine PIC time.

Lineholder CA's could be junior assigned for 200% to fly as FO, but not an FO's line for the month.

There was no contractual language preventing assignment of captains to FO lines and originally there was no requirement for right seat qualifications at all - until one captain who was hired straight into the captain seat and had never flown in the right seat complained that he couldn't fly as FO because he'd never received training to fly in the right seat and had no clue as to what the FOs did on their side of the cockpit. Then all captains had to do a right seat qual.

 

[Sunking]

At AAI all Captains have to be qualified to fly in the right seat. The company however can not make you fly from there, try as they may, they try to intice you with 1 1/2 capt. rate, even had some offers at double time. I suspect with the furlough news, that has come to a grinding halt, or at least it should if you had a conscious.

 

[sstearns2]

Skywest did this about 6 years ago for the reserve Brasilia captains. They were paid straight CA pay to fly as F/O. It only lasted a few months.

I think check airman can pick up F/O open time for 150% pay, if you can get crew support to give it to you. I never tried.

Scott