Remembering the DC-10: A Pilot’s Perspective

DALLAS – Airline pilots live and die by their “number,” or seniority number, that is. During your first day in new hire ground school, “Basic Indoc,” before you’re even assigned an aircraft, someone will come in, welcome you aboard, and dispense a class roster.

You’ll eagerly search for your name and note the number beside it. This is your all-important system seniority number.

You’ve spent years trying to acquire this innocuous little number and, over the course of your career, it will determine the equipment that you fly, from which seat, whether as a block holder or reserve, domestic or international, read more ⇒

Source:: “Airways Magazine”

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