@JustinMTrefney@xAviation And your cluelessness is showing. I've been pushed back in AMS well over 100 times, and these KLM guys are always the ultimate professionals.
@unlimited_ls For all the “experts” on here citing a 12, 24, or even 8-10 hour “bottle to throttle“, the actual rule is found here:
https://t.co/UOGjK6Y8zw
(It’s 8 hours)
@ReliableHearsay@houmanhemmati Those are perfectly normal restrictions for a new first officer in that airplane. Every single one of them coming out of the simulator for a first officer position will have identical restrictions.
@DonaldBestCA She was on OE, which is initial operating experience with a Check Airman/ Instructor. It is perfectly normal for the first landings to be on a regular revenue flight. As for her previous experience, that would apply to perhaps 70% of new hire pilots at regional airlines.
@DJSnM "proximity warning systems were less reliable with the older transponder design on the helicopter."
"Proximity warning systems" (TCAS) would be inhibited (by design) at those altitudes.