Originally Posted by
Ottopilot
Some guys are hired from the military into a major and have never had passengers to talk to. Give him a break. Not everyone is born with all the knowledge of an airline pilot, they actually have to learn it.
Yeah but they should of had leadership positions in which they must've had to talk to people or even staff positions where they briefed audiences.
C'mon now....."don't take no GED" to make pax announcements. In the military communication is essential to get your job done and making pax announcements, aka communicating, should be second nature with as much time as ex military pilots have in the military. All military pilots are commissioned officers and I hardly believe that ex military officers wouldn't know how to give a simple "sitrep," announcement, update or whatever you want to call it, to passengers.
If this is your experience in dealing with ex military, I'm really really surprised.....take care.