Originally Posted by
BackseatPilot
Also, one of the pilots I was recently flying with said his "boss" was the chief pilot. I don't see anywhere in the CBA where it says that. I've always taken the view my "boss" is the CBA. Is this incorrect? The instructor at the schoolhouse said his "boss" was some supervisor.
Not at B6, but I’ll wager in one of your company manuals, usually first of second chapter, there is an organizational chart from CEO on down, which shows your chief pilot as your direct supervisor.
Training dept is usually a separate branch of flight ops, so that instructor while doing training is under a different chain of command, however if they go do a line flight they answer to the chief pilot (unless it’s a training flight, then the training aspect would answer to training supervisor and operational would be chief pilot)