Originally Posted by
badflaps
I once had an F/O push the power up in the flare, the next day he thought he would be in the office. I told him no, and that he would eventually fly up his own butt. Three years later the NJ State Police arrested him for plotting to kill his father-in-law.........
When I first checked out as a Delta Capt. one of the last things my IOE Capt. told me was,
"Now you are going to find that not all the azzholes are in the left seat!"
I've only flown with maybe two guys in the right seat that I didn't have a good time with. But I just wrote it off to them having a bad day or recent divorce or something.
Oh, there is one guy who every Capt. and F/O keeps mentioning as being completely worthless. I've only flown with him once, and he was. Not in a bad way, no arguments or disagreements, he just did nothing, nothing at all, in the way of doing his job.
Still, I'd rather fly with him than the more argumentative, thinks he's the Captain, type, of which I've only met one.
I finally told him, "Look if you wanted to be the Captain, you should have BID IT! But since you didn't, just shut your pie hole."
After the trip, I got an email from another Capt. who had just flown with him before my trip, asking me about him. Seems they had a conflict too, but the other Capt. had him removed from the trip when they passed through his SLC base. This was about 12 years ago. He's probably a Capt. by now...I pity his F/O's!
