Originally Posted by
stuckgear
snort!
and don't even start on pilot controlled lighting !
Oh, but I will. In my first month in the left seat, F/O on his first revenue trip, Navy pilot. We had endured many hours of delay through out the day, topped off with a re-route to an airport with no approaches to the runway in use, no tower OR approach control open at that hour. Neither of us had ever been there. We were talking to Atlanta center, and his simple instructions were, "just click the lights, you'll see it out there. Do you want to call me on the phone after you land or cancel now?" I told Jim to cancel now, and he said, "can we do this!?" I assured him that we could, made a few calls on CTAF, and landed, and finally got some sleep.
(I traded aircraft with Jim several years later...he was by that time a seasoned Captain, and very sure of what he could and couldn't do.)