Originally Posted by
seafeye
Flew with a guy last month who was one of the 300hr wonders now 1500 who always got mad at ATC. Off freq he would call them (Insert profantiy here) idiots etc...
He would make wrong calls to them and then call them the idiot. Heaven forbid if a controller wouldn't answer him on the first try.
I just don't get it. Here is a new pilot who won the lottery and got an airline job after only being a pilot for a year. And he is chuck yeager. He flew fine and i don't have any issues with that. It just that everybody is an idiot according to him, from rampers to gate agents to flight attendents etc... I would try to correct his lack of knowledge with explaination but he never wanted to hear it. I gave him a copy of important parts of the AIM and 10 min after departure it was in the garbage.
Just basic basic uncontrolled airport stuff. How to get a clearance, reporting points etc...He just didn't want to hear it.
Anyone know how to educate a brick wall?
Sounds like you did your best to mentor him. When I was working on my PPL I made a crack about one of the controllers at Travis AFB. I said something to the effect of "That guy must be new'. My instructor said "Kinda like us huh?" That really put things in perspective.
Funny how something as simple as that could have such a long term impact on both my life and work.
In the future you could just mention that you don't want to listen to his negative diatribes. Life is short, if he can't learn something new every trip maybe he should be doing something else.
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