GoJet pilot on the radio

SFLAX said:
There is being professional and being a leader in the cockpit, your an instructor and your students sees you as such. Professionalism is also calling people out for not being professional. Maybe I’m that guy, but all the captains I train are confident and ready and control the situation, why because they are professional. Tell your student that you should of been a better example for him in the future.
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Eh, I can actually be a very confrontational type of guy. I don't back down easy from a fight or a challenge. I have a really bad temper. I don't really think that is a personal strength of mine, and I'm striving really hard to change it. It's probably more of a negative, than a positive. I understand the psychology of it, that it comes from my childhood when I always felt powerless and weak and was picked on relentlessly. I think that I cope by being very sarcastic/passive-aggressive as a warning or a first shot across the bow.

I guess that my question is, how would a rebuke over the radio, have changed anything? What was done, was already said and done. No changing that. Someone felt the need to maybe make himself big, by making another feel small.

Last month at work a nurse was trying to micro-manage me and said that she didn't like the way that I was passing out laundry bags. Because I was doing it different than she does it. My first move was to confront her and slap her down verbally, basically telling her to shut up and mind her own goddamn business. Another tech yanked my arm and pulled me aside and said something to me that still resonates. He said. "You know my grandmother used to always tell me. That you do not have to attend every fight, that you're invited to."

I think that this also resonates here as well. I think the OP showed restraint, professionalism and leadership by refusing to engage. Thus taking away the power of the bully.
 
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wheelsup said:
Sometimes people need thicker skin.

I can hear the snowflakes melting from my hotel room.

I totally get how it could be taken the wrong way but there are a lot of dicks in aviation, it goes along with the Type A attracted to operating the equipment.
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Sure, but the place for jokes isn’t a busy ground frequency.
 
Maximillian_Jenius said:
Machismo, rivalry maybe?

Dunno I've never really been a competitive, insecure douchey Alpha male type. I've always thought that if one is confident in themselves and their own skills then they don't have to broadcast it to others. Again it's been my experience that when someone is feeling lesser, they consciously or unconsciously overcompensate by putting others down. Or by super inflating their id with braggadocio or by micro-managing.
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In ATC when you screw up the entire room will make sure you know it. When you do a good job you're just doing your job.
 
Derg said:
Were? :)
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There are a lot of USDA Grade-AAA Richard Craniums in aviation.

Furthermore, a lot of those guys have friends or people drawn to them with an a$$load of money, power and/or influence. They use that to shield themselves from whatever consequences their dick-ish-ness brings their way, or to advance themselves well beyond their skill set and/or temperament.

Point is it's important to learn the warning signs, because these DBs are out there and you don't want to be anywhere near them when they inevitably implode, either due to the direct physical hazard or due to the giant poo-storm that showers everyone but themselves with a foul miasma.

Some of these guys can be career enders, especially to the newbs in the business. Avoid.
 
ITT, people who never flight instructed and don't understand how negative crap effects learning, subconsciously or consciously. I've tried hobbies where everyone had a self righteous dbag attitude about how cool they were. It was enough to make me realize it wasn't a group I wanted to hang around with.
 
Nark said:
Well, some of us strive to be an ambassador to aviation.
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I always try to go out of my way to be kind, let the new pilot have time over the radio, talk to kids who want to chat, answer the dumb questions no matter how dang tired or over it I may be at that point. I think it’s important to foster positive vibes in this community.

EXCEPT when I’m at the urinal. Dude, just stop talking, I don’t want to talk to you at the urinal.
 
AAPalmTree said:
I always try to go out of my way to be kind, let the new pilot have time over the radio, talk to kids who want to chat, answer the dumb questions no matter how dang tired or over it I may be at that point. I think it’s important to foster positive vibes in this community.

EXCEPT when I’m at the urinal. Dude, just stop talking, I don’t want to talk to you at the urinal.
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Oh come on you know at any given time at least half the people posting from this site are doing so from the porcelain throne, right?
 
NovemberEcho said:
Not so much with trainees, but I've known plenty of solid controllers who are also cocky loud mouths. Hell I've been that guy.
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I took what he said as referring to the total person, which I think can go beyond whether they are good or not at their job.
 
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