aloft
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Note: This is a real-world "you're the captain..." scenario overheard between two airline captains while in the waiting room at my AME's office on Monday. One had the very FO described below and was soliciting advice from his associate on how to handle the guy.
You're the captain, and your FO is a recently-retired Air Force colonel with gobs of heavy jet aircraft commander experience, but little interest in subordinating himself to you in the cockpit. Examples of his behavior: at some point you call for cowl anti-ice, he dismisses the direction and grunts "nah, we don't need that". You ask him to calculate the landing distance for a wet runway, he again dismisses it and grunts "nah, we'll be fine. plenty of runway". In his mind, he's the captain, and just letting you think you are.
How do you handle this? How might CRM be affected?
You're the captain, and your FO is a recently-retired Air Force colonel with gobs of heavy jet aircraft commander experience, but little interest in subordinating himself to you in the cockpit. Examples of his behavior: at some point you call for cowl anti-ice, he dismisses the direction and grunts "nah, we don't need that". You ask him to calculate the landing distance for a wet runway, he again dismisses it and grunts "nah, we'll be fine. plenty of runway". In his mind, he's the captain, and just letting you think you are.
How do you handle this? How might CRM be affected?