On 18 Aug 2003 15:14:38 -0700, (s.p.i.)
wrote:

Pardon a digression here but I must ask. Is the 767 cockpit going to
be reconfigured for a flight engineer? IIRC there may have been some
early ones that were configured that way for union purposes but I've
never seen one. It would be expensive to do in the current production
line.

I don't know why they would. The KC-135s lost their flight engineers
when the aircraft were upgraded with glass cockpits. This was
probably close to five years ago.

The Guard pilots I talked to said they weren't too happy about losing
the third person in the cockpit and intended to carry a second boom
operator for a while, to have someone to sit in the jump seat and back
them up. They'd have preferred a flight engineer, but theirs were all
going away.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer