[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Forgive me for being absurd, but is there a limit to the number > of copilots a plane can have? I mean, if the pilot and the first > three co-pilots happened to die of old age simultaneously, > it'd make sense to have a fourth copilot as a back-up, > right?
Right, except that the co-pilot isn't just someone who could be the co-pilot, he's the person acting as the co-pilot. Just as there can only be one person flying pilot-in-command, there's only one person who can fly right seat, and the person actually doing so is the co-pilot. If that co-pilot died and someone else took over, that person would then be the co-pilot. Everyone else is just a passenger, despite the fact that some of them may have a pilot's license. -- Riad Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT VI-2/A 2002
