Originally Posted by
MasterOfPuppets
it’s not about the maneuver I have 100% confidence an FO could safely reject. I have seen it hundreds of times in the SIM on FO/FO training pairings.
it’s about the decision and the execution. I have a go mindset. If you say generator failure to me we are going airborne because it is safer. However if an Amber caution illuminates and the FO rejects before I have the opportunity to say continue I can no longer stop him. And I gurantee you CAs will try to stop their FOs which is extremely dangerous.
or as I mentioned previously I as the Captain call reject and the FO either doesn’t hear me because Audio is gone or hearing issues without an intercom or doesn’t react now I have to TAKE the airplane which is much different than a positive transfer of controls.
if the Captain has undisputed reject or continue authority (which is different than actually saying Reject by the FO when there is a perceivedsafety issue) then the Captain needs to perform the maneuver for safety
The audio argument I'm not a huge fan of because these are issues that could easily affect both. What if the FO calls out something that's within the normal abort criteria and the captain does nothing? "Oh well I'm not allowed to abort so f#$k me I guess"
Like I said, if abort criteria and maneuver was something that was standard and periodically trained by both pilots just like go arounds and V1 cuts, it would be a non-issue (and I don't mean the physical maneuver alone, I mean the identification and execution through proper decision making). This is my first flying job where the authority to abort is strictly the Captain's.
I would even argue that starting to train FO's to properly identify and execute better prepares them for when they upgrade. Then it doesn't become some new, added responsibility.
And what if the captain is the solely responsible? Who's going to get in trouble for backing their FO after an abort? This line of thought would have more teeth of FOs were aborting for erroneous indications and putting aircraft in unsafe conditions. That's not happening anywhere.