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?