Originally Posted by
7576FO
Now I was a captain at a regional for a very long time. I always treated it as a team effort. I didn't go around talking about who was a good co-pilot and who was bad.
I can understand getting bumped from the left seat losing pay and status. But to say that you are going back to invisible insults me.
What say you?
7576
It's not insulting, but it is immature. Anyone who does this job because they like to be in the spotlight is for sure in it for the wrong reasons. And yeah, it is a team effort. I always brief the crew that I am there to work for them, not the other way around. I simply have the seniority to sit in the left seat, but other than that am no better than they are. But if in my position as captain I can do anything to help them do their jobs better that they shouldn't hesitate to ask.
It's about getting the job done, not massaging my ego.
The one like you describe fortunately are not the majority of crew members. Most of the F/Os and F/As I fly with are polite and professional and want to do the right thing. Occasionally there are immature egomaniacs, but they are in the minority. Or at least their egos are not abnormally large, given an industry of large egos.....
