jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
I've gotta say THE WORST captains I've flown with are the guys that explain to me how to fly the airplane the whole trip. I mean it doesn't matter the phase of flight, I'm ALWAYS doing something wrong. You marginalize your FO that way and after a day or two of this they stop paying attention to what's going on because they know that no matter what they do, the captain will tell them that they're doing it wrong.
I had a guy do that for a four day, and I couldn't want to get off that trip. He was easily one of the worst captains I've ever flown with. The worst was where we were trouble shooting a problem we were having with the plane on climb out. I took the plane and the radio's through about 10,000' and he goes to to call MX on number 2. He isn't listening to ATC this whole time, mind you. I start getting step climbs with speed restrictions so I start climbing at 250 knots from 14,000' to 15,000', and do it at VS 1,000' and partial power so I don't blow through the speed restriction. Jackass Jones in the left seat looks over at me (without knowing what ATC asked me to do), releases the trigger on the mic that he was talking with MX on and proceeds to chew me out about not knowing what I'm doing and how I should never climb with partial power or we'll stall.
Seriously?
I had a guy do that for a four day, and I couldn't want to get off that trip. He was easily one of the worst captains I've ever flown with. The worst was where we were trouble shooting a problem we were having with the plane on climb out. I took the plane and the radio's through about 10,000' and he goes to to call MX on number 2. He isn't listening to ATC this whole time, mind you. I start getting step climbs with speed restrictions so I start climbing at 250 knots from 14,000' to 15,000', and do it at VS 1,000' and partial power so I don't blow through the speed restriction. Jackass Jones in the left seat looks over at me (without knowing what ATC asked me to do), releases the trigger on the mic that he was talking with MX on and proceeds to chew me out about not knowing what I'm doing and how I should never climb with partial power or we'll stall.
Seriously?