Originally Posted by
PotatoChip
JNB... Seriously? Where is "instruct" on the job description of a captain? Last I checked, airlines (and I have worked for a few) have employees known as instructors who fill this role quite nicely. First Officers are professional pilots with less seniority. Period.
How do you expect F/Os to learn the day-to-day craft of being an airline pilot or captain? From 25 hours of IOE, YGBSM. I flew at an airline, the military and 16 years of corporate, in all of them captains were expected to coach, lead and evaluate their crews. I had evaluation sheets each captain I flew with at EAL, some cappyy's were better than others, but all made comments and gave some words of advice that have shaped my career after they shutdown.
If you're not "instructing", you're shirking part of the job.
GF