Good Captains

ZapBrannigan said:
Yup. Absolutely no superior skill or divine wisdom is required to upgrade at a 121 carrier. All you have to do is avoid getting furloughed long enough to have your number called before the person sitting to your right and then pass an industry standard (read: so easy a caveman can do it) checkride.


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There are a lot of things you hear in a brief that can be indicative of how the rest of the trip is going to go. When I hear "I'm only in this seat because I've been here longer than you..." it's usually been a good indication that this is a humble captain that knows the value of teamwork. I've got no time for idiots that try to assert dominance from the left seat.
 
learhawkerbe400 said:
How do you forget if you're PM? The other guy calls for it. I'm confused
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Can we at least agree that it's way less annoying than a captain who hover hands the yoke on all my landings?

...Especially after he caused a go around while messing with the autopilot on my leg.

...And then ruined the landing.

Anyway... Feel free to talk about professional discourtesy while micromanaging my hand placement.

Just as a curiosity, how close is too close? Can I put my hand next to the flap handle? Is the hover a necessity? Maybe I should sit on my hands until the captain tells me I can use them....


Bruh.


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trafficinsight said:
Can we at least agree that it's way less annoying than a captain who hover hands the yoke on all my landings?

...Especially after he caused a go around while messing with the autopilot on my leg.

...And then ruined the landing.

Anyway... Feel free to talk about professional discourtesy while micromanaging my hand placement.

Just as a curiosity, how close is too close? Can I put my hand next to the flap handle? Is the hover a necessity? Maybe I should sit on my hands until the captain tells me I can use them....


Bruh.


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You're going to make an interesting captain.
 
trafficinsight said:
Can we at least agree that it's way less annoying than a captain who hover hands the yoke on all my landings?

...Especially after he caused a go around while messing with the autopilot on my leg.

...And then ruined the landing.

Anyway... Feel free to talk about professional discourtesy while micromanaging my hand placement.

Just as a curiosity, how close is too close? Can I put my hand next to the flap handle? Is the hover a necessity? Maybe I should sit on my hands until the captain tells me I can use them....


Bruh.


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You actually had a captain ghost you while landing? That's a pretty crappy thing to do.
 
ZapBrannigan said:
You would be shocked by how often that happens. Guess they're just waiting for the chance to save the day.


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I guess I'm lucky as it's never happened to me. I did have one guy "coach" me through pretty much every landing. I'm all for receiving input on how to make my landings better but this guy was a different story. After the next few times he did it, I told him I'm good to let him land the plane even if it's my leg. I should have told him there's a position in the company where he can teach people how to land!
 
Jordan93 said:
I've had some real winners that even had to tell me what kind ride we had when ATC asked us to say ride conditions. Thanks, I know what light turbulence is. Even had one guy tell me to say Delta after a Canadian controller asked which mainline we flew for:confused:
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It's especially humorous when the ride is smooth. Now, I'm no genius but I have a pretty good understanding what constitutes smooth air.
 
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Screaming_Emu said:
There are a lot of things you hear in a brief that can be indicative of how the rest of the trip is going to go. When I hear "I'm only in this seat because I've been here longer than you..." it's usually been a good indication that this is a humble captain that knows the value of teamwork. I've got no time for idiots that try to assert dominance from the left seat.
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My favorite was when on a trip and the regular guy had a family emergency, he called out sick and jumpseated home asap. I got a reserve CA. I'm a nice guy in person, positive, up beat type. So in a very nice manner, I just inquired, "hey, so are you with me all the way through Vegas, to Los Angeles?" And his answer I kid you not was: "No. YOU'RE coming with me through Vegas to LA."

Ooo, tough guy, thanks for asserting your PIC authority even though I in no way questioned it. This is the same type of guy who during a brief if the flight attendant asks, are you coming with us tomorrow back to LA? And they say no, YOU'RE coming with me back to LA tomorrow.

For ^#&% sake people! Who gives a flying fornication. No one is questioning your PIC authority. It's simply a figure of speech in terms of if we're traveling together to the same destinations. Since you're on reserve and quite frankly none of us know how many legs the reserve CA will be going forward because the original guy called out.
 
My favorite are the guys who just move the flaps lever themselves after the salute so they can save 5 seconds on the "Before taxi checklist".
 
bimmerphile said:
one of my favorite captains was flying with a friend (FO) while I was in the jump. While it was the FO's leg, he may have put his hand on top of the FO's on the power levers and said "ooh, let's make it a coupled approach."
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Didn't United actually set their takeoff power this way back in the day?
 
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