FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Aborted take-offs
View Single Post
Old Mar 11, 2007 | 3:51 pm
  #21  
LarryJ
30 Countries Visited
Community Builder
All eyes on you!
20 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: BNA
Programs: HH Silver. (Former UA PP, DL PM, PC Plat)
Posts: 9,530
Originally Posted by JT8D-217
Third guy in a pilot's get-up?
He is the Second Officer.

The Second Officer sits at the Flight Engineer station in the cockpit of the older airplanes which required an F/E. F/E used to have two trips on their shoulder/sleeve. Second Officers generally wore three stripes because they were pilots who were currently assigned to the S/O position, not professional flight engineers who weren't pilots.

The First Officer is the pilot sitting in the right-front pilot seat. He was called the co-pilot in the old days. The F/O wears three stripes.

The Captain is the pilot sitting in the left-front pilot seat and is the pilot in command. The Captain wears four stripes.
LarryJ is offline