I was looking at 747-200/300 videos and was wondering what did Flight Engineers end up doing with their careers once airlines only needed two pilots?

 

 

That's a good question for Airline Pilot Central:

http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/

All the ex Tri Star engineers I used to know either moved to the right seat or retired once the fleet was phased out. I would assume the same thing happens around the rest of the globe.

 

Btw, plenty of jobs still around working on classic freighters.

 

Regards

Well... at least 2 of my colleagues at a major airline maintenance division have been flight engineers and became aircraft system engineers after the 747 classics left our fleet. Of some others within the airline I work for, I know they were trained to become pilots.