How to Annoy your First Officer

BlueMoon said:
That's all well and good, but as I said the AOM for the aircraft has a 30kt max taxi speed limitation.
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When do they consider the aircraft to be taxiing? While still decelerating on the runway? Turning off? Flaps up, after landing checklist? Not trying to be difficult, just trying to understand another company's SOP.
 
cencal83406 said:
When do they consider the aircraft to be taxiing? While still decelerating on the runway? Turning off? Flaps up, after landing checklist? Not trying to be difficult, just trying to understand another company's SOP.
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The checkairman who did my CA OE said you are considering taxing when you leave the runway center line for the turn off. I see the reasoning, you aren't really on the landing rollout if you are maneuvering on the ground.

My prior company did not have a taxi speed limitation in the AOM, so it was whatever we deemed safe and prudent.
 
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Derg said:
As I said to my IOE captain on one of the final legs:

"Don't worry son, you're doing fine."

Then the flight attendant called and asked what all the uproarious laughter was about because he could hear it from first class.
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There's nothing quite like popping the door after shut down and seeing the flight attendant looking at the both of you like you're crazy, because you were laughing all the way...
 
In seven years I've never had a captain keep his hand on the flap lever until now. Drove me nuts. But I think it drove him more nuts when I didn't say anything.
 
pierre said:
Syncing the heading bug every 10 seconds.
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I do this. It's an old habit from mapping missions. One degree off heading would have you drifting off your line, so to this day, I feel if I'm flying a heading off my bug, I'm flying off course. Also, the wind would change over time (especially in mountainous areas), even over just a few miles/minutes. If you had your bug synced up, the first indication of shifting winds would be having to fly a heading that didn't correlate with the bug. I continue to do it now for the same reason. Not on heading bug = winds have changed.

Now on the Bro, I sync it up because you never know when the autopilot is going to do something...abnormal...and you need to flip it to heading mode, like, five seconds ago :-)
 
FL350 said:
On the 135 side of the world, captain sits in the FBO while you (the F/O) file & check weather, get the clearance, program the box, check performance data, fuel the plane, preflight, set up the cabin and your ten minutes into this routine when the CA walks out with a cookie and says "why isn't this or that done yet, did you program my iPad??"
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Sounds like you fly at Stiggy Air @mikecweb
 
Nick said:
I just had an FO put his hand by the flap lever and also the gear lever.

Great guy and all, but I have ~4000 hours in type, he had 200 . . . relax, I'm not planning on landing gear up. :)
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I do that sometimes, but more as a reminder for myself where we are in the checklist. Sometimes the the final flaps get called for REALLY late (but mostly legal) so I keep my hand by the flap lever to remember that the checklist isn't completed yet.
 
BobDDuck said:
I do that sometimes, but more as a reminder for myself where we are in the checklist. Sometimes the the final flaps get called for REALLY late (but mostly legal) so I keep my hand by the flap lever to remember that the checklist isn't completed yet.
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Yeah this was on a 10 mile final with half the flaps already out.
 
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