Originally Posted by baseball

I had an FNG as an FO one day. worst experience. He showed 30 minutes past push time. Worst pilot I've ever seen. I had to start the engines. Landing was so bad had to get MX out to check the landing gear in case I needed to write up a hard landing. He acted like no big deal. Haven't seen an overtemp like that during start in 20 years.

The real problem was the nonchalant attitude that he had about his job performance. He thought he was maverick and goose combined into one, and I thought he hadn't finished training yet.

I encouraged him to fly more and do Bunkie less, or call the training dept. to ask for extra sim time.