Originally Posted by
Drofdeb
You'd be surprised how many captains want to shutdown #2 before APU start. When informed, they say "oh we've always done it this way". So, there's at least just as many FOs that aren't following the manuals.
Good for you, put someone down for following safe procedures, awesome, shows us what a professional you are.
Oh so sensitive....come on. You really are upset about making a joke about you being a wild child who opens ketchup from the wrong end?
You're supposed to start the APU. Any FO that accepts the "don't start the APU, we have always done it that way" is not following a procedure, created for added fire safety.
Why are they not reminding the Ca, in the correct way, that the procedure has changed and the reason behind it? And if still an issue, we have ProStands to handle issues of pilots blatantly violating a safety procedure, after willfully disregarding a reminder from the SIC, being a professional as you mentioned.
As an FO, you going to sit there and say nothing if the Ca says to not start the APU? Are half the FOs not as outspoken as you are, by allowing a CA to tell them to not start the APU?
Are these the "douche hat wearers" you spoke about before?