Originally Posted by
OnFingers12345
There’s nothing wrong with autopilot. However going from mainly 91 and a little 135 to 121, it’s clear most guys can’t fly without it… FO or CA. Pretty sad to have a guy click on the autopilot on a CAVU day after takeoff without you asking because they can’t handle their business, regardless of seat position!! It does suck having crappy clients. Anyways, to each their own.
Thats why I click it right back off from the yoke and tell whoever “my controls”. Then at TOC, having a discussion to reset the CRM environment.
Ive had one CA at my shop shop insisted on planning and managing my descent to reach a crossing restriction from altitude when clearly I was going to meet it. I ended up giving him the controls and down he went. Once we got down to our assigned altitude, he looked at me was like damn, you were right. I was very annoyed with him and tried to have a short discussion to reset the CRM environment. Refused to entertain the discussion and that my friends is how he ended up on my no fly list.
Apparently he has a rep for being a micro-manager and a ****bag of a CA.