Originally Posted by cactusflyer

I did my oral with Jack (which was surprisingly painless), but was lucky enough to never fly with him.

The only time I interacted with him after that was when I was swapping airplanes with his crew in PDX, and he completely powered down the airplane despite the fact that we were standing in the walkway (and clearly visible from the cockpit) waiting to take it over.



I flew my last IOE trip with "Little Jack", and had basically the same experience. After said LCA told me "This is how people get violated by the FAA!" when I asked ATC to confirm an altitude change and was generally high strung for the entire trip, he signed me off after the final leg despite a debrief that was basically "these are all the ways you fail at being a pilot".