dispatchguy
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ROPEs
When I worked for UAL at their Pilot Crew Desk in the summer of 2000, we had several pilots, ROPEs (real old pilot engineers), who were well past 60 flying the panel on B727s and B747 ropestarts.
I recall one pilot who had a UAL Pilot Seniority date which was during the Battle of Midway, during the summer of 1942. He had been typed on every jet that UAL had flown before his retirement as a pilot in the early 70s, including the Caravelle, DC8, and a few other equipment codes that I couldnt decipher. He retired off the ropestart B747 as a Captain, then moved to the panel and flew it for at least 20+ more years... A really nice guy, never called on sick list. He was a widower (at least according to the information in Unimatic), and my guess was, had nothing else better to do, so why not...
He finally retired from commercial flying when UAL retired the B727 - to which he flowed back to (probably over 25 years since he last flew one as a Captain), after 9/11.
When I worked for UAL at their Pilot Crew Desk in the summer of 2000, we had several pilots, ROPEs (real old pilot engineers), who were well past 60 flying the panel on B727s and B747 ropestarts.
I recall one pilot who had a UAL Pilot Seniority date which was during the Battle of Midway, during the summer of 1942. He had been typed on every jet that UAL had flown before his retirement as a pilot in the early 70s, including the Caravelle, DC8, and a few other equipment codes that I couldnt decipher. He retired off the ropestart B747 as a Captain, then moved to the panel and flew it for at least 20+ more years... A really nice guy, never called on sick list. He was a widower (at least according to the information in Unimatic), and my guess was, had nothing else better to do, so why not...
He finally retired from commercial flying when UAL retired the B727 - to which he flowed back to (probably over 25 years since he last flew one as a Captain), after 9/11.