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I had some pretty cool captains. They'd take you out and bust the hell out of you and then... go get you drunk, stuff like that - Randall “Pink” Floyd
I always subscribed to the cooperate to graduate mantra as a first officer, but I certainly appreciated captains who said “if I don’t call for it and you think it’s time to run a checklist, then do it.” Those captains were the kind that allowed you to develop technique and start honing judgement in a new way.
Nothing better than flying with a captain who obviously forgets something, let's say the descent checklist. You pull the checklist out, or suggest maybe we should do it, and then he says "I didn't ask for it".
And then 5 seconds later they call for descent checklist.