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As the joke goes: "We're from the FAA, and we're here to help"aviodromefriend wrote:(And if the FAA is willing to be very supportive to this plane...... I doubt it).
They want to have a dutch crew. (If they have to fly in Yanks for every single event, costs will raise even more ) During delivery it was flown by a team from the (then) MATS Conny, although the co-pilot was dutch then to. And AFAIK the flight engineer was a UK citizen, doing some work for the MATS Conny one month a year.patrick@tediek.com wrote:are the pilots for the connie dutch? I know at the time the plane was flown by Americans from the USA.
aviodromefriend wrote:They want to have a dutch crew. (If they have to fly in Yanks for every single event, costs will raise even more ) During delivery it was flown by a team from the (then) MATS Conny, although the co-pilot was dutch then to. And AFAIK the flight engineer was a UK citizen, doing some work for the MATS Conny one month a year.patrick@tediek.com wrote:are the pilots for the connie dutch? I know at the time the plane was flown by Americans from the USA.
They don't have to stay current, as the MATS Connie is now static only in a museum in Korea. It even can't fly anymore as two engines are not airworthy as they broke down at the dutch Connie.patrick@tediek.com wrote:right, but when there is no other 749, how does the mats crew stay current?Yes, and the MATS Connie has been grounded forever, so there is no other 749 in the air(and a current crew either) to train a Dutch crew. So forget the whole story
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