Originally Posted by The Juice

I am not going to come at you with "guns blazzin" but a few things that you may want to think about...

In the 121 world, nobody cares about who the best stick is and even less about who thinks they are the best stick. There is nothing worse flying with someone who high fives themselves after a nice landing.

Automation is a 121 pilots best friend. I have no problem with a FO keeping their skills up but I want to see the AP on when shooting hard IMC approaches and when multi tasking builds up. I am much more impressed by an FO that can use the automation to their advantage while managing their role as PF rather than an FO who insists to hand fly and can not maintain constant speed or pitch.

The point is, what you did or "achieved" in the past does not matter once you start at the airline. You will be junior FO and at the bottom, after a few "Oh *******" moments you will realize that the game has changed and things are not exactly what you thought it to be.

Again, I give this as friendly advice. Someone previously said on this thread (maybe you) that the FOs job is not to learn but back up the Captain. This cant be futher from the truth. Your job is to back up eachother and to learn as much as you can from the comfort of the right seat, learning from the left seat is not smart.