Originally Posted by
vessbot
You're ordering the events out of sequence, it's a pushback checklist not a before start checklist. And when we're already pushing, it's too late for "how bout..." I can either simply just do it myself, or tell the tug crew to stop. I agree with you about the downsides of the latter option (toldja you'd love it!) which is why I don't do it.
But guess who's putting me in that position? Of course, the guy who sees the "big picture," too old, wise, and worldly to get hung up on "whatever they're teaching at the schoolhouse these days." Just like every one that's caused a wreck that stems from a SOP noncompliance. Here's the real big picture, you have a set of simple instructions you're required to follow so that everyone's singing off the same sheet: 1, 2, and 3. All you have to do is 1, 2, and 3; that's it! Easy. Done. This is really that simple, it's not some compound emergency Apollo 13 situation that might require you to get creative. And guess what, if you lack the ability to follow the instructions in the easy everyday straight forward case, that only lowers my trust in your ability to think your way through the compound emergency.
Seems you’re new to the airline world, remember this works both ways.
CRM is a two way street. So passive aggressively reading the before push checklist during the push is just as bad as not doing it at all. It’s to catch things before the push, not during. So if you are in a position where you are not able to compete this checklist, for whatever reason, you need to ask the CA to hold pushes in the future to do this checklist.
It’s not being passive aggressive by 1)complaining on a forum 2) reading it during the push to “get it on the CVR” or 3)you calling to “stop push” on your own.
If I forgot a checklist and the FO said nothing but got on the intercom to “stop push” to the tug, you have failed as have I.
CRM exists for a reason. It’s not there to sulk and complain from the right seat about how “old and non compliant” the CA is and not for him to sit and grumble about “these new FOs trying to run the show”. It’s to save your lives and the pax in the back. Decades of CRM saving lives backs this up.
Time to maybe take a step back and ask what you can do better as an FO to promote healthy CRM