Originally Posted by
leica typ240
...on my last trip, i flew with an fo who will be upgrading on this bid w/ 1k hours of company time and a total of 2300.
he was the pm on the trip, i asked him to calculate our fuel and come up with our "bingo" fuel as our dispatcher was busy with other flights during a hold. his response, "I DON'T KNOW HOW"
Captains should be challenging and mentoring first officers. That being said, fuel consumption calculation is Aviation 101. Which is why when I asked a student of mine twenty years ago "when will we run out of gas?" He looked at his high dollar aviation watch and said "Uh?" I made him come back the next day and give me a much better answer.
Hopefully there will be enough gaps in these guys knowledge they won't make it through the upgrade. There are plenty of guys that don't even know that they don't know. They are usually the ones that think they have the right to be a captain and shouldn't even have to wait for the 1000hrs.