Originally Posted by
Check Essential
I truly can't understand this obsession with the management pilots.
Do you guys really have that much interaction with those people?
I don't think I've ever met one higher up than a LCA. (I take that back. The
Chief Line Check Airman gave me my IOE on the 737. Nice guy. Excellent pilot. Likes German beer.
Bought the German beer. We got along great.
)
Things must have been VERY different at Northwest.
Somehow I've managed to fly the Widget for 20 years and can't remember a single thing that was particularly remarkable or controversial about any fleet captain we've ever had. They do their job and I do mine.
Maybe its just me. I must be missing something.
Hey Check, BS IS a great guy. I gave him his initial checkride in the C-141 back in the day. Drank A LOT of German beer on that trip.
PS I'm thinking the fnwa environment must have been very different in terms of the fleet captains. This will all die down when they understand and become comfortable with the fact that there's absolutely zero interaction with those guys unless, as I stated a few pages back, somebody has a training problem. Then, and only then, they "might" get to meet them.