Ansett 767 3 Crew

[Luke A]

Hi all. I just can't believe what you can find on YouTube these days. I wanted to share a link to an hour long ride inside VH-RME (sadly parted out in MEL some time ago). The flight is MEL-SYD and has some good views of the overhead panel, clearly showing the difference between the standard two crew 767, and the flight engineer station. Hope you enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f44oPPEYCE&feature=fvst

[John Arena]

WOW! never seen a 3 man 767 crew before, an amazing video, an amazing Airline

Thanks!

John

[Nigel C]

IIRC Ansett was one of the only, if not the only airline running 3 flight crew B767's in the world.

[Shayne G]

Correct Nigel, Ansett was the only airline in the world to have the 767-200 have an flight engineers panel.

The plane was designed with one of the main features being a 2 crew operation and Ansett managed to make theirs 3 crew, pretty good in my opinion

[Radi K]

love it!

[Andrew Coggan]

Great video! Will probably make me late for school tomorrow since I stayed up an hour late watching it, BUT it was defineatly worth it! Thank you for sharing

[Adam P.]

pretty good in my opinion

...until the time came to sell them, and there were no 767 flight engineers anywhere else in the world...

[Luke A]

Once the 727s were retired and also the arrival of second hand 767-200s with standard 2 crew layouts, the original batch VH-RMD-H were converted to the standard 767 two crew operation.

[Jack B]

3 crew 767-200s lasted until 97? wow!

[Mark D.]

It was strictly a Union thing, the Engineers would not allow the introduction of 2 crew widebodies. TAA had A300 had engineers, and with the two airline policy, AN were not going to be outdone.
Natural attrition, and the training of remaining FE to pilots, was the end result, and everyone was happy