Good Captains

Cherokee_Cruiser said:
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.
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Someone sounds very insecure, I'm sure he was bullied as a kid and feels he needs to beat his chest a bit.
 
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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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Wait, lemme back up. So you have no qualms about hovering over the flap lever because you don't care how others perceive it, but have issues with captains who hover over the controls because reasons?

Kinda hypocritical, don't ya think? Ya know, that whole goose/gander thing. Maybe they're just getting some payback for your flap handle caress.
 
Cptnchia said:
Wait, lemme back up. So you have no qualms about hovering over the flap lever because you don't care how others perceive it, but have issues with captains who hover over the controls because reasons?

Kinda hypocritical, don't ya think? Ya know, that whole goose/gander thing. Maybe they're just getting some payback for your flap handle caress.
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Er, no, I don't find that hypocritical at all.

For one thing I'm not going to move the flaps until they're commanded. Whereas fighting over the controls is bad news in any flight deck.

It's not even close to the same thing.


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trafficinsight said:
Er, no, I don't find that hypocritical at all.

For one thing I'm not going to move the flaps until they're commanded. Whereas fighting over the controls is bad news in any flight deck.

It's not even close to the same thing.


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Why you fighting? As soon as they touch the controls, state loudly and firmly, YOU HAVE THE CONTROLS." They'll get the message.

Besides, you didn't say they touched them, just merely hovered.
 
Vyse said:
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".
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At my last place we had a dude who didn't trust the FOs to set takeoff flaps...even though the procedure was to have the captain call for it, FO would verify it with the performance, then set it.

I actually watched that idiot argue his "superior" technique in recurrent ground school.
 
Screaming_Emu said:
Also, large truck and small weenus.

"My one ton has a towing capacity of..."

"What do you tow that is that big?"

"Well...I mean...I could..."
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Well, in their defense:
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Okay, back to the good captain discussion.
 
Cptnchia said:
Why you fighting? As soon as they touch the controls, state loudly and firmly, YOU HAVE THE CONTROLS." They'll get the message.

Besides, you didn't say they touched them, just merely hovered.
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I don't turn the controls loose until someone else says they have them. If I'm unsure I'll ask if you want them. In the flare though there really isn't time.

Hovering earns a chuckle and it's forgotten in seconds, grabbing earns a debrief about what exactly you saw that maybe I didn't. ("Sorry, I'm used to the 700..." In this case)

I'm poking fun at people who complained about something that really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, and is honestly probably more of a personal preference than anything else. Not really into a drawn out philosophical argument with the insecure today. You see me do something you don't like and it's interfering with your ability to operate professionally then ask me to stop and I will. Until then I'll do my best to do what's safe, helpful, and efficient.

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