Originally Posted by Rawhide51

If the Captain was always right, we would not waste union time and money on Pro Standards. Are you telling me every captain out there is within standards on every item? I'd be happy to increase my profit sharing check by no longer requiring MV or LOE's for another captain from the line.

If they aren't all perfect, that probationary pilot report has to be taken with a grain of salt. I'd be happy to just fly a whole trip with one captain that doesn't have his own version of the sop.

I've flown with nervous and paranoid new captains that didn't trust a thing I did. I've also flown with new captains that built a solid crew and made CRM easy.

Start with Pro-standards first. The wrong report in the wrong flight office can ruin a life. If they made it past TK and the LCA's, it could be an example of a bad day with a captain who starts the preflight brief with "I do everything SOP except..."

You can't hold someone to a testing standard when the truth changes daily. The P/I's and LCA's are a bit more standardized than the average captain in our junior bases, who is still ****ed off that they changed the call-outs from what they were before the merger.