On the whole Briefing idea...shouldn't we all be able to say...Just do what they taught you in training...or not even that, because, what else would you do?

I always fly with the mindset that the guy sitting next to me went through the same upgrade training I did (because...he DID) and he knows what the procedures are, and how to read a checklist, so, why do I have to tell him how to do his job? Until he proves otherwise, I'm going to assume he knows what he's doing. Yet I have to brief "Aborts and abnormals" every time. WHY??


Same with the F/A's, but I am required to tell them how and when to evacuate, and what the signals are, how to open the cockpit door, etc. while most of the F/A's I fly with have been doing their job for over 35 years.

How about a briefing that goes like this:

"Let's have fun, and not end up on CNN! Questions?"

Because if you don't know your job by now, my briefing you isn't going to help. And if you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong!