[pabianice]

FAA Flight Navigator: Federal Air Regulations, 14 CFR Part 63, Subpart C - Flight Navigators.

I Navigated Navy P-2s and P-3s for 20 years. The P-8 also has a flight navigator/radioman. The civilian equivalent disappeared several decades ago, replaced by automation.

[riverdawg]

The story about how Boeing convinced the FAA to certify the 767 and 777 cockpit configuration (pilot and copilot only) is an interesting one. On the flight-safety test, Boeing had a 777 take off, fly a prescribed route, and land with *nobody* in the cockpit. That convinced the FAA that a flight navigator was not necessary in the cockpit of those aircraft.