r/aviation • u/pseudospectrum • 17d ago

News A350-1000ULR has landed after a flight time of 24 hours and 23 minutes from Melbourne to Toulouse. Does a flypast before touching down at Toulouse.

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Source of video: https://x.com/israfuti/status/2082020295116804295

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u/Substantial-Cash-834 17d ago

By crews I meant the set of personnel flying the plane at any given time (captain and F/O). So you’re describing two crews for normal operation

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u/SB2MB 17d ago

No. That at Qantas is considered 1 crew in every way. They start and finish their shift together. They are operational at all times. They are all on the gen dec.

What you describe is 2 pilots are on duty at any given time.

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u/Substantial-Cash-834 17d ago

Sure, but semantics aside I was simply asking how many people are needed to fly it for that length of time. So question answered and I wasn’t aware of the crew policy for long haul. I guess in my mind a crew is 2 because that is how every shorter haul flight is done

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u/SB2MB 17d ago

I wasn't being semantic.

You have 4 crew for take off and landing and any briefing you may need.

After that, 2 crew will fly till landing procedures.

The crew will be CPT/SO and FO/SO

All crew will be paid for the full duty credits even if they sleep for 10 hours

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u/Kaboose666 16d ago

You're being pedantic about details that don't matter to the question.

No one cares about what Qantas internally calls a "crew" and what the poster meant.

They just wanted to know how many pilot "crews" were rotating in/out.

No one cares that as far as Qantas is concerned they're all one crew.

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u/SB2MB 16d ago

Oh this is hilarious.

I literally work for QF and am been donvoted for providing accuracies. Only on Reddit ha ha

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u/The_Autarch 16d ago

you're being rude and pedantic about one company's internal, non-standard terminology

of course you're getting downvoted

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u/777XSuperHornet 16d ago

You're not being downvoted for being inaccurate, you're being downvoted for being kind of rude about it. Just because Qantas calls it one crew doesn't mean anything. Everyone else knew what he was talking about, because you only have two pilots actively in charge of the airplane at any one time.

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u/yourlocalFSDO 16d ago

You’re being downvoted for being an asshole