Originally Posted by
Love PanAm
A young guy from a rich family (the money for the flight training) will be usually your flying buddy. While most are good in normal flying many think familiarizing with the memory items (limitations, NNCs, maneuvers) is an exaggeration. You can see puzzled face if you engage them in the topics. Some are even worse, they don’t brief at all just says “Briefing standard” ...yeah do it just like yesterday. Takeoff and landings ... been there done that.
Welcome to Indonesia!
Also maditory that all pilots smoke, cockpit starts to fill with smoke before startup and continues till disembarking. This with below standard aircon and pax are breathing secondhand smoke the whole trip.