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Originally Posted by paxhauler85
(Post 760971)
I expressed my feelings to the CA (I was against accepting the airplane). CA wanted to go home, vs. deny-ing the airplane and overnight out of base .....
Most uncomfortable flight of my career...... It was legal, but in my opinion, wrong to operate that flight as revenue. I didn't want to go either way, but I wanted to go even less with 50 people in back. If something is not right...it is not right. It is the pilots' decision, not the pilot's decision to take the airplane. |
a/p REFUSAL
Originally Posted by Swedish Blender
(Post 756872)
The captain should have said he wanted to wait for the weather. Refusing because the A/P is inop is lame. You are supposed to be a professional. What, can't hand fly?
Leave out the A/P excuse and I would agree I know several people who used to have to hand fly a Lear at 410 from the midwest to the west coast. It wasn't that the AP didn't WORK ! That was a spurious argument !! As was the time of day, or whether he felt ok. If he didn't his response ws he was "fatigued". The real question was, whether he *could* land cat1 or 2 upon destination arrival because cat3 can't be flown without the autopilot and autothrottle operating. The answer is NOT whether you CAN But whether you SHOULD! Too many times CAPT's make the right decision and base it on the WRONG reasonings. And THAT puts them right in the bullseye of Management, because the MEL is a "LEGAL" document as well as an operational document. |
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