Originally Posted by
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Captains who are incapable of incorporating CRM into the operation. When I've got over 7000 hours of 121 flying, been at the company more than 5 years, with over 2000 hours on type, and the CA still micromanages everything about my involvment in the operation, they're going on the list. I don't have the patience to be paired up with people like that, let some junior pilot have that trip.
Good GRIEF! I’m a senior FO at a regional who’s about to start upgrade, and had a similar experience with a micromanaging captain recently. He knew I was more than capable of doing the job and doing it competently, and I was even correcting and pointing out lots of things he was missing/forgetting. I started getting lots of ‘indications’ before pushback that he maybe a micromanager. I didn’t realize to what extent until we were taxiing out and then airborne. Thank God I only did a short turn with that guy and I was done with him!
I figured there were more of these types at the regionals and that the LCC’s/majors had a way of identifying them and preventing them from getting hired on. Or even if they do slip through the cracks and manage to get hired, that they were dealt with more effectively than how the regionals deal with them. However as time goes on I’m learning that may not be the case though. Sounds like every carrier, even majors, has their fair share of complete and total crap bags.