Originally Posted by
Liberty
I won’t disagree that some OSW guys walk around with a kool aid mustache. Not as many these days. No matter the reality, we don’t need to be miserable at work either. There’s two ditches. The adopted kids are often in the miserable ditch. Can normally tell they were adopted in the first 2-3 minutes of a pairing. As with all things there are exceptions. I’ve flown with a few really incredible ones… a few.
The "adopted" captains were the ones that, by far, were the ones that honored the "first year FO don't buy" tradition in my experience. I only flew with one FAT guy that just couldn't let it go plus had to be the religious Jl O in addition to the regional Jn O and be the one DB on my no fly list.