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Nov 26, 2014, 6:05 pm
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Nope. Sometimes they may be present if there are passengers one way and they need to ferry the plane back, but they are not required to simply ferry a plane. I think the FAA assumes the pilots can take care of themselves if there's an emergency.
Nov 27, 2014, 8:11 am
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I believe it is required by the FAA to have 2 in the flight deck cabin at all times in case there is a medical emergency involving the flight deck crew. So in other words they couldnt go use the toilet ever. It could maybe be airline policies and not FAA, I dont know. I do know that AS has FAs on the cargo plane or at least they used to. A lot of Fedex jets also fly with FAs
Nov 27, 2014, 12:40 pm
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Knew @ combi. Didn't know @ Freighter...interesting.
Originally Posted by ANC
I believe it is required by the FAA to have 2 in the flight deck cabin at all times in case there is a medical emergency involving the flight deck crew. So in other words they couldnt go use the toilet ever. It could maybe be airline policies and not FAA, I dont know. I do know that AS has FAs on the cargo plane or at least they used to. A lot of Fedex jets also fly with FAs
Nov 27, 2014, 2:01 pm
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I believe it is required by the FAA to have 2 in the flight deck cabin at all times in case there is a medical emergency involving the flight deck crew. So in other words they couldnt go use the toilet ever. It could maybe be airline policies and not FAA, I dont know. I do know that AS has FAs on the cargo plane or at least they used to. A lot of Fedex jets also fly with FAs
If the AS combi is flying all cargo with no passengers then 1 FA is required per FAA.
Nov 27, 2014, 5:17 pm
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