Originally Posted by
sidelinesam
I'm not sure how to take the tone of your post, but is it really necessary to have two sets of years picking up a clearance? That was my whole point - that as an FO you should know how to pick it up and be able to set-up for that clearance without having to have your hand held! By the time you make it to an airline, there are certain porcedures that should be able to be accomplished without consulting the AIM, methinks!
you should take it as I think your safety culture at your airline is unsafe and unacceptable if you all practice having only one set of ears listening and writing down a clearance over radio. PDC is one thing, but when you are picking up a clearance out of airports with RNAV departures to certain runways and initial fixes based on those runways, you are setting yourself up for a deviation or worse. With one person picking up clearance, i don't care if the captain picks it up and the FO is doing the walk around, you are just rolling the dice. We are all susceptible to mishearing or writing down the wrong thing. Thanks for the intro to the airlines, luckily I work for one that doesn't allow only one crew member to be present to pick up clearance.