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Attributes | |
ACN | 1750887 |
Time | |
Date | 202007 |
Aircraft 1 | |
Make Model Name | No Aircraft |
Person 1 | |
Function | Captain |
Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
Events | |
Anomaly | No Specific Anomaly Occurred All Types |
Narrative:
I recently completed my cqmv after having it rescheduled twice due to the coronavirus precautions. I have not flown since mid april and am now on reserve. Since there are so many reserves and so little open flying on my fleet; I don't expect to receive a flying assignment for some time.I am concerned about the possibility of being paired with a first officer who has been displaced from the left seat; receives one simulator session and two legs with an lca and is then put on reserve with no requirement to consolidate the training. The very real possibility that both the captain and the newly minted first officer will have gone months without flying prior to their trip together. This situation gets even worse when the captain has been bumped back to the type X aircraft (which he has flown previously) from another manufacturer X aircraft; received an abbreviated training event and very little; if any; time in the airplane with a lca with no requirement to consolidate.it would seem that these scenarios would ring alarm bells on safety management model.how is a flight crew to mitigate the threat that this presents in the very likely event that they are assigned a trip where one or both pilots receive abbreviated training to their displaced position and subsequently go months without flying?
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Air carrier Captain reported concerns with lack of flying and the possibility of being paired with a First Officer who has also not flown in months.
Narrative: I recently completed my CQMV after having it rescheduled twice due to the Coronavirus precautions. I have not flown since mid April and am now on reserve. Since there are so many reserves and so little open flying on my fleet; I don't expect to receive a flying assignment for some time.I am concerned about the possibility of being paired with a First Officer who has been displaced from the left seat; receives one simulator session and two legs with an LCA and is then put on reserve with no requirement to consolidate the training. The very real possibility that both the Captain and the newly minted First Officer will have gone months without flying prior to their trip together. This situation gets even worse when the Captain has been bumped back to the type X Aircraft (which he has flown previously) from another Manufacturer X aircraft; received an abbreviated training event and very little; if any; time in the airplane with a LCA with no requirement to consolidate.It would seem that these scenarios would ring alarm bells on safety management model.How is a flight crew to mitigate the threat that this presents in the very likely event that they are assigned a trip where one or both pilots receive abbreviated training to their displaced position and subsequently go months without flying?
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.