Originally Posted by PinnacleFO

I just wanted to see what everyone thinks about this. Its happened to all of us, you have a 4 day trip with a captain (or fo i guess but they really cant control much) who does everything at the pace of a turtle "in the name of safety". I mean it gets bad, taxiing so slow that you think the brakes are going to overheat, pulling in the pad to wait for takeoff numbers even though you already have them, pulling back the speed all the way to LRC and not accepting any short cuts the whole way. It gets you so frustrated. Then on the last leg of the day, when this person has to get home to his or her commuting flight, everything suddenly switches, rushing through everything and sometimes forgeting stuff, flying at the red line even if its bumpy, getting stressed out about waiting in a takeoff line, making the fo ask for rediculous short cuts when you know ATC is not going to give them. Ive even had a captian that wanted to just fly right through a buildup that would have been so easy to go around, and it took all the pleading in the world to get him to ask for the 10 degrees right which took us one minute longer.
I have always thought that you can hardly make up time in the air, it all happens on the ground. I know that everyone is trying to make their flights home and sometimes its the only flight home, but I believe that if you work as a team, you can get a quick turn done on the last leg, fly the plane normally, and when you get on the ground, if one person has to leave right away, let the other person take care of everything on the way out. I worry sometimes about people just rushing too much and that can lead to bad things