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Originally Posted by Velocipede  An S/O is an engineer. What you have is IROs or F/Os/Capt qualified cruise pilots.
Again, there are no S/Os on the 777. |
Nope, what we have are S/Os. Second Officer is an official rank complete with one stripe. Our Flight Engineers on the classic freighters are PFEs and not pilots. We also have relief qualified FOs that are used as IROs as well but on the four man crew they sit there with the SO. Sometimes we take an SO as the third man to ANC instead of two FOs.
I do believe I know the ranks and duties of pilots at my own airline. If we didn't have them then it would be awfully hard to recruit for this position
http://www.cathaypacific.com/cpa/en_...eers/flying/so