Originally Posted by
Packrat
The Grave Digger and the Bust Brothers were from the generation who thought that Alaska's flying was the toughest in the universe. They expected you to have NDB and FSS freqs in SE memorized on IOE. RNAV and RNP left that kind of "thinking" behind.
Of course, legend has it they would also take Captain upgrade bid results and determine who would pass and who would fail before the first person even started training. So there's that...
Then are are those you just felt like it was beneath themselves to put forth any effort in their upgrade. Once they weren't "given" an automatic upgrade, they took it upon themselves to bash the ones training them for their own lack of effort. Am I right? You should know what I'm talking about.