Originally Posted by
SSlow
Uhh, the 121 world is not the place to figure out how to talk on the radio.
Maybe one day, when you're all grown up in the left seat, you'll get to see what it's like to get a last minute departure change while taxiing out in LGA with a FO who's brain is still back in the hotel shuttle.
"Help them out and move on..."
Give me a break
121 radio work is different enough for someone to have to learn it while on the job. Regional FOs don’t magically learn how to read back a descend via clearance while in a 172.
The complaints of this pilot group with regards to a handful of FOs struggling on radio is stupid tbh. Is it annoying? Sure. Is it a new? No. Again, it happens all the time at the regional level and corporate level. You help them out where they’re weak is keep it moving.
Because for every new FO who’s still back at the hotel van, there’s a CA who doesn’t know how to connect to the wifi (I’m not joking). Both pilots are at the helm of a transport category aircraft.