Originally Posted by
450knotOffice
I see two things you did that that would antagonize almost any captain, including you someday: 1) you apparently just spun back his speed without maybe suggesting he may want to slow down first. Excuse me?! Better CRM would have been to suggest that "maybe we should slow down because it's pretty bumpy". Give the guy a chance to make the move on his own. Hell, I'm a captain of MY airplane, and that's the type of suggestion I would make of a first officer during his/her leg. It's just damn rude to spin it down when it's not your leg.
2) Concerning the red cell, did you first suggest that maybe you should ask for a left or right heading away from the cell? If so, did he just ignore you, or offer up a reason why he was planning to penetrate the cell?
CRM goes both ways. You know that. Work as a TEAM. Your actions, at least the way you've described them, strike me as the actions of someone who feels he knows it all, and has to act as the real captain onboard your jet.
No buddy, he was worried about a 30/7 problem for his next trip, a commuter, plain and simple. Crap was flying everywhere. I used the words "bumpy as hell." If you want to be a stupid captain, I will treat you like a stupid captain, everything is recorded on the bus. My bad for leaving that out.
The red cell, he had a meeting with his wife, anniversary, and was in a rush to get home. I did ask him to go around the cell, he said NO.
I was just trying to give 7576FO a couple examples of a few situations here. Didn't want to write a book with all the details. In his example the captain said NO to his request, my point, like his in hindsight, is I would have asked anyway.
Called get-home-itis sometimes.
These are few and far between incidents. 99.999% of the time things run smoothly.