JordanD
Chinese Food Enthusiast
I'll start throwing this into my briefs. I was an FO on the same plane, so I'm extremely comfortable sometimes and I'll catch myself. If I get a brand new guy I try to brief "if I'm starting to make you feel rushed, say something." I used to do SNA stuff all the time as an FO, and we parked ins uch a way that after pushback it was pretty much "ok hold short monitor tower." Most guys would just run the before TO checklist right after the after start. Had an out of base guy pick up a trip and I'm fumbling to get the TO checklist done while we're about to line up and wait. Then he says "That wasn't too bad." After the look I gave him he realized how much busier I am on that checklist vs the captains basically just glancing at the EICAS for MINTO.If I may add something from the right seat now that I’ve beem in the job a very small amount of time. Since you were just in the right seat, remember the stuff that annoyed you time/work load wise as an FO, and help your FO keep stuff at a manageable pace.
I have a very small number of pet peeves, but at least at my shop, single engine taxi out is the expectation, and thus the delayed start up is the FO’s job. I keep finding myself flying with Captains who pride themselves on waiting until the last minute to call for the delayed start, and thus turn me into the aviation equivalent of Vishnu.
I'll throw another one on there for the captains that came up from a situation today. Some dispatchers MO seems to be "let me file them through the weather, with TSRA and CB in the TAF and just give them an extra 25 minutes contingency fuel and let them figure it out. Throughly look at your route, check the release, and call them up and demand a new routing if you're not happy. I went along with it and everything was fine, but it made my life way more stressful than it needed to be. Some dispatchers are awesome, some will just go along with whatever the computer spits out.