Originally Posted by
e6bpilot
I have been trying my level best to do the callouts like they are written. After 2 months of it, I mostly agree with the comments above. When things get busy, that’s the first thing I shed and go back to good old VVMI. Ever try getting a clearance with 3 things and doing it by the book? It takes a solid minute just to get the words out. Then you forget something and have to ask again and then do it over again. This does feel a whole lot like AirTran finally getting their last dig in.
Here’s a crazy idea. There’s two of us, both of us need to do a better job of doing and verifying. Hold each other accountable. We don’t need to say more things to make that happen (or not since the PE doesn’t do any PV apparently).
Now if anyone can get Dallas to realize this garbage needs to change back... good luck with that🙄. They seem to think pointing (fuel flow) and grunting (all these overly wordy callouts) takes the place of just not F-ing up over and over.
As far as the clowns doing the really egregious stuff, can we just vote them off the seniority list? Yes, yes, we are a "union" and have to protect everyone's job, but maybe we start making exceptions for at least the A-holes that no one wants to fly with.. I know that list doesn't exactly coincide with the list for special case morons that made the dumbest moves, but maybe it would keep the clowns on their toes enough to not try to level change at the wrong time... or the guy next to them to watch it happen. [After] is not the time to fix this problem. By then it is too late for all of us.