Originally Posted by aviatorhi

Then don't make it sound like you are.

Frankly if you don't know your [stuff] you're not gonna get any respect, a lot of these senior guys will get a feel for you from how you conduct yourself on the radio (are you the clueless FO who doesn't know how to request a clearance from a remote airport?), how comfortable you feel in the plane and how you know your systems... if you aren't dead on with your answers their potential respect for you (which is already reduced because they don't feel you've spent enough time cutting your teeth) will be reduced further, and first impressions make all the difference. These guys are ****ed, and rightly so, that someone can pay 70 grand and is willing accept sub par wages for years just so they can play pilot and do what these same guys spent their lives earning the right to do.

I know of an AirWis pilot or two who are at wits end telling AllATPs wonders or JetU types to "stop [messing] with the FMS and flying the [darn] airplane", only to have the FO look back at them like deer in the headlights, and if you conduct yourself on the radio and professionally similarly to one of these "FO Wonder Boys/Girls" you'll get the same treatment, like it or not.