Originally Posted by
das Uber Soldat
It simply boggles the mind these 1950's CRM ideas (or lack thereof) still persist.
They definitely exist in a small minority. Not just “old dinosaurs”, but a lot who were trained only recently.
It comes down to either poor screening of bad personality types prior to recruiting or a lack of “attitude adjustment” prior to making it to PIC of a multi crew aircraft.
It would be helped if these problem Captains weren’t just the subject of bar-room talk. If management are going to act on a poor personality type it isn’t going to be because they heard some FO’s complaining about a problem skipper at the bar, they need to be informed formally and precisely of what these guys are like in the flight deck.
There was an incident years back with a so called “problem skipper” who was well known to be an abusive idiot whom everyone who came into contact with him hated him, and was the subject of much discussion between other pilots. Eventually after having problems crewing flights because FO’s were calling in sick on him his managers sacked him. But he sued the company for wrongful dismissal and was given a huge payout. Why? It seems that even there there were many stories circulating about this guy in bars and flight decks about his stupid behaviour there had been almost no formal reports submitted against him, so according to his lawyers this guy was pretty much a model employee.