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Flying Cathay's 747 Freighters  
User currently offlineCX747 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 4385 posts, RR: 5
Posted (6 years 2 months 1 week 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 1568 times:

Does Cathay Pacific have different pilot pools for their pax and cargo 747 fleets? Also, are their dual qualified 742/744 pilots or is their a seperate pool for the 747-200Fs?


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User currently offlineCCA From Hong Kong, joined Oct 2002, 708 posts, RR: 14
Reply 1, posted (6 years 2 months 1 week 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 1405 times:

Pax 744 pilots "can" fly the 744F if they want, but pilots hired directly onto the 744F cannot fly the PAX 744 until they have reached the seniority to join the 744 PAX fleet, or Airbus or 777 pax fleets.

742 drivers are all on the "Classic" until their seniority is high enough to join the PAX fleet, just like the 744F guys.

There is only one guy dual qualified to fly the 744/742, he's a test pilot and only comes to fly the "Classic" when it requires a test flight, he flies with a senior/check "Classic" Captain in the F/Os seat with a senior/check F/E.


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User currently offlineCobra27 From Slovenia, joined May 2001, 989 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (6 years 2 months 1 week 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 1310 times:

Is there a lot of difernece between flying them. The fully loaded 747F seems somewhat heavy to fly

User currently offlineJammin From India, joined Nov 2006, 133 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (6 years 2 months 1 week 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 1187 times:

Why the need for seniority to be able to fly in the pax fleet? Is it because they need to learn how to interact with the passengers or something? (shouldn't be hard, I think)

Wouldn't all 744 pilots being able to fly both cargo and pax fleets give the airline more flexibility in scheduling?


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User currently offlineBA787 From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2006, 2596 posts, RR: 8
Reply 4, posted (6 years 2 months 1 week 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 1077 times:

Quoting CX747 (Thread starter):

They advertise for freight and pax captains seperately, but I think the freight captains can work their way up into the PAX ops.

User currently offlineCX747 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 4385 posts, RR: 5
Reply 5, posted (6 years 2 months 1 week 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 1022 times:

Is there one aircraft at CX that has more "senior" pilots on it?


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