Good Bye Capt. Dara

FMC · Post by **FMC** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 2:26 pm

The retirement of B747 captains will reduce the average age of PIA captains tu 38 years. That 's nice.

Amaad Lone · Post by **Amaad Lone** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 2:43 pm

The retirement of B747 captains will reduce the average age of PIA captains tu 38 years. That 's nice.

Don't you mean 48.

How can the average age be 38, when the youngest captain (an ex-first officer of the A310), cannot be less then 35 or 40.

Plus there are a number of 777 captains in their 50s.

So I am sure the average is going to be 48 and not 38.

Abbas Ali · Post by **Abbas Ali** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 2:55 pm

inducedrag wrote:Today Capt ZiaulIslam did his last flight pk301

Capt. Zia-ul-Islam (right) at London-Heathrow Airport on December 24, 2004 ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ Copyright Mohammed Younis

inducedrag · Post by **inducedrag** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:21 pm

just for info Capt Arif Malik will be doing his last flight on Sat Pk774
STN- KHI arr on Sunday

AN · Post by AN » Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:06 pm

Whereas the officialy retirement date is, as someone said, 1 day before the 60th birthday, most pilots have leave that has accumalated over their careers, and this leave has to be taken. So usualy, they will do their last flight some weeks, or at some times over a month (depending on the exact amount of leave) before their birth days come around.

And wheras CAA might have accepted 62 as the age, the next questions is when will PIA do so?

R.F. · Post by **R.F.** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 8:15 pm

Currently the average age of an ATR commander in PIA is 40+, for times to come this will prevail and donot see any less then 45 year old jet commanders comming up. Maybe after 10 years if there is expansion and not replacement of equipment then the average ages will drop and we might see some 25 year old turbo prop commanders.
With the stagnation that PIA has seen for quite some years, it'll have far reaching effects. The average service of an wide bodied commander in PIA is 21 years + and ages around 46+ for the B777's is 50+.
Back in the 70's the average ages of an B707/720 commaders use to be mid to late 30's, as they were getting their jet command in 9-10 years of service.

Right now it's a BIG deal to be a wide body commander in PIA, where as in the airlines around the region one will find early to mid 30's pilots as A310/300 commanders and late 30's to mid 40's as A330/340 and B777 commanders.

F.K · Post by **F.K** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:49 pm

whose replacing capt dara as svp flt safety?

nutsforplanes · Post by **nutsforplanes** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 1:42 pm

R.F. wrote:

Back in the 70's the average ages of an B707/720 commaders use to be mid to late 30's, as they were getting their jet command in 9-10 years of service

Right you are. My father received his B707/720 command in 1963, age 32. DC-10 in 1974 age 43, B747 in 1976 age 45. Joined in 1955.

stylo4444 · Post by **stylo4444** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:17 am

I've had Captain Tajammul plenty of times when he was flying the A300 (AP-BAZ, AP-BEL, AP-BFL)

Very nice man.

cheetah · Post by **cheetah** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 6:29 pm

F.K wrote:whose replacing capt dara as svp flt safety?

He got a 6 month extension. Non-flying though.