Originally Posted by
machtuk
you missed the point!
No I don’t think he did. Regardless if you are a Captain or an F/O getting enjoyment from deliberately making the other pilot uncomfortable is a horrible character trait.
For every story of “I made another pilot uncomfortable by hand flying a visual approach on a CAVOK day” I’ve heard a story of “one pilot wanted to hand fly in poor weather in a high traffic environment and overloaded the support pilot in return”.
Originally Posted by
josephfeatherweight
Crikey, there's some impressive willies being waved about 'round 'ere!
Indeed. And some wonder why Australians overseas have earned the nickname “Austro-nauts”. Some European airlines operate far more aircraft to far more ports in a higher traffic density environment and have to contend with a real winter with snow and ice. Ryanair operates in this environment with more aircraft than all Australian airlines have combined and put 200hr pilots in the RHS, and upgrade them to Captain after 4/5 years. They’ve never lost a jet to pilot error. You’d think they know something about operating airliners without the “Austro-nauts” needing to teach them how to fly.