Originally Posted by
Purpleanga
His response should have been "above my paygrade"
To be fair, bingo fuel is a CA calculation unless you were just messing with him because he wanted to upgrade.
That is BS. Both pilots need to know how to do it, so one can back up the other. Just like the manual weight and balance/performance that people are clueless on these days. Surprisingly a lot of the newer CA's still can't do it correctly either. The problem now is these people are upgrading virtually instantly and have NO clue what they are doing yet here and will be also be paired up with another person that has no clue as an FO so there is NOBODY to catch the mistakes anymore.
It is a LOT more than just bingo fuel knowledge they are lacking on. Bingo fuel is just the tip of the iceberg. Spend about 5 minutes in the airplane with many of these newer guys and it is obvious there is a serious safety problem brewing with these extremely quick upgrades...