Airline Pilot Central Forums - Have ya flown w/ Captain "You've got arms, doncha?"

Airline Pilot Central Forums (https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/)

- Regional (https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/regional/)

- - Have ya flown w/ Captain "You've got arms, doncha?" (https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/regional/25078-have-ya-flown-w-captain-youve-got-arms-doncha.html)

Quote:

Originally Posted by FlexThrust (Post 364042)

The Captain who is unwilling to use those SOPs, especially in an environment where the lower time FO is DEPENDING on the SOPs to succeed at his or her job, just needs to go work that cart machine at Wal-Mart or something.

I didn't know they had cart-machines at WalMart??

But anyway, yes - a Captain who is so far out of whack when it comes to SOP is making any new FO's job multitudes more difficult...half his time is then spent figuring out what the hell he's doing!

As someone who has flown with the entire spectrum of captains, from ones who start a trip by saying "I don't believe in checklists" to ones who follow the SOP exactily to the letter, I agree that I would rather have the latter because, as you all said, at least I know exactly what I have to do and what's going to happen. Nothing threw me for a loop more as a new FO than captians who just did their own thing.