Originally Posted by luv757

1) The faster everyone else is trying to go, the slower I start to go. When you rush you miss **** and that’s what gets you violated or killed.

2) Always take something off of your FO’s plate. IOW get a checklist done as soon as you can on taxi out. SE taxi and waiting on numbers? Crank the other engine while you wait. Got your numbers? Run the before to the line. With that also make sure your FO knows they’ve got all the time in the world to get stuff done. You can make the time if it’s needed.

3) As others have said it’s ok for the FO to have a better idea than you do. What’s right, not who’s right.

4) Be yourself. Unless you’re an ******* in which case don’t be an *******.

5) Don’t get spun up over what you can’t control. With that said you control the APU so……

6) Never ever work in a hot environment.

7) It’s ok to say NO. Refuse an airplane if need be. Call in fatigued/sick if you need to.

8) If the little voice in your brain says add gas, listen to it.
8a) Always make sure you’ve left yourself enough gas to have an out. Especially if you’re going someplace with 1 runway and somebody ahead of you shuts it down.

9) What the company wants doesn’t always align with what’s best for your particular situation. No I am not saying do anything illegal but what I am saying is if you’re running late and you’re a stand in front of the cabin and do the clown show type, maybe forgo the clown show this time and get moving. Or my point in number 8. Your spider sense is going off for a reason. Or the “efficient” route you’ve been planned on is going through every piece of MOD TURB that WSI can find. Call DD and come up with a better plan.