So, what does the guy do? What are his actions that are unsafe? As stated before, you are the captain... you were hired to be the Captain/Chief pilot and are the one the owner has entrusted his and his families safety with.

Maybe you can come up with some sort of ops manual and get the boss to sign off on it. Make everything in it about safety, then when your co-pilot does something unsafe just pull out the manual. Also, if its a single pilot plane and you can operate it that way, then do so. Every leg is the captains leg. Remember... the F.O. flys at the captains convenience.

Bottom line..... you're in charge. Dont let the guy push you around and cause you to get fired..... then again, maybe thats what he is trying to do.

Send him in for a upgrade to the left seat and tell the school all the details and let them try to train him and hopefully after he keeps crashing the sim, and with his training records, you can have some good info to can him..

Lynn

Wow, I can not believe some of the advice being giving here.

You do not need to stab him in the back. All that will do is get one of you fired and both of you on edge with each other.

Be an adult, sit him down, and talk to him about the problem. Have a rational conversation that goes both ways. Listen to his opinion also.

If that doesn't change anything then go to the aircraft owner and once again talk about the problem.

If neither of these fix the problem than perhaps it is time to re-evaluate your current job.

I try and let him fly the empty legs if the weather permits. When he is the pnf he trys to do the checklist/radio/gps/ but cant manage to do more than one thing at a time.

his unsafe actions include not maintaining centerline(like entire plane left or right) bust altitude constantly by 150', wrong crosswind corrections, full scale ILS on LOC and GS. The biggest thing is that he just doesnt listen to me. If I try and tell him something it is usually meant with an sarcastic response or he will try and blame his mistake on me. Sometimes he will just quit flying all together if I try and correct him. One time I denied him an takeoff due to weather and waketurb. and he completly shutdown. No radios, no checklist, no call outs, nothing just stared out his window for the 2 hour flight to home base...if i could only fire him

these are the exact things you need to FIRST confront him with.. and SECOND if thats a dead end take to the boss.

Document EVERYTING with dates, flight numbers, passenger lists, and full descriptions of what happened. Bring it up to the owner and show him your concerns. If this doesn't work (I know its hard) look into being the whistle blower on this one.

Next time he lands put your hand on his shoulder and tell him you like the way he handles the stick.

That should do it.

Ha!! I did that once with a new FO who had just finished OE. He was so scared to screw up he didn't say a word besides the check lists. So about third leg, when I had my hand on the the throttles I told him to put his hand on mine. Needless to say he started talking.

Also, This co-pilot is logging all of the time that he is in the airplane as SIC. Is this legal, being that its a single pilot certified turbo prop and im the PIC in the left seat, Part 91, and Im not a CFI giving "dual"????