Originally Posted by
ReadOnly7
I get up early, to prepare MYSELF for the flight. I do all the homework and treat it like I’m a professional. When I get to the van, I assume my flying partner has done the same. We don’t need to talk about it on the ride to work. We aren’t planning a lunar expedition. We don’t need to prebrief the brief, and then DEBRIEF the brief. Threat and error management, along with good CRM. At some point, if you saturate me with explaining how you fly an airplane….I’m no longer listening to you. Is THAT an effective means of briefing?
I happen to fly with quite a few half-wingers that don’t prep ahead so I have to take time to mentor them on being a professional pilot.
we don’t do a deep dive on the flight plan in the van. It’s a simple “what do you think? How’s the gas? Many times I get the blank stare, that’s a CA’s job or I don’t start working till I get to the plane.
Guess what happens next, we barely can get the jet prepped for departure and that’s with the divide/conquer method.
Quite a few of the half-wingers spent less then 5 yrs at the regional level and they didn’t have the mentorship they needed. Their CA’s there barely knew how to perform their jobs. We’re seeing the effects of lack of leadership/mentorship at the RJ level coming to UA.
I spend time in cruise attempting to mentor the half-wingers and help them understand what it takes to be a professional pilot. Some accept it, some reject it. Those pilots in the latter half get a “not nice probie report/call to pro-standards”. I have had one half-winger that after I contacted pro-standards they let me know I wasn’t the first CA to call regarding their lack of professionalism