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.
Ok now you see what we have been talking about over here. Many of these guys think they are captains and while I expect or rather insist that people speak up, you can see the east way is just do it because they either were captains at one point or they are entitled to be one now! I would have preferred that a voice had said " there is lighting 12 oclock what do you think? Get us a vector is what I think and thanks cause I did not see it!!! Mod chop here you comfortable with that .80? The buzz word was "you comfortable".
WD at AWA