Originally Posted by
McDuff
I found it very difficult to read. I loved the historical value of the stories, but bridled at the poor captaincy, the expectstion that your co-pilot is expected almost to be a mind-reader, to understand the captain's intentions without words. Its value as a pilot’s story was low for me. It felt dangerous as a message about running a flight deck
But that's how it used to be, that's the point. Even much later, when I started flying, there were bad Captains who thought they were gods and we should anticipate their every move without being asked or told.
We are lucky that many of those earlier lessons have been learned and we now have pretty decent SOPs, and CRM.