Originally Posted by
tecnamflyer
I appreciate you taking the time to search my profile (?) .. so I took a glance, to discover you've wanted to defend aer lingus when others have stated the same truths more than once? You don't seem to like the truth.
To call it misleading/exaggerated, when it's all over YouTube? Were they recorded on vatsim or what? So, the j/s captain audio is correct, but he's a "special case". So, how many of these "special cases" do they have exactly? At what stage is it no longer the exception but the culture? and the company putting it in black and white that the F/O is the binman, was this fabricated? Did that document came from thin air, or because captains pressured company into it .. "to re-establish discipline", because their egos weren't being stroked?
I don't say so mate, they say so, and we know that because they air it all. The ME place I know doesn't restrict FO sto 10 kts and RE BA, a BA pilot can clarify that one. Frankly this isn't the point though and highlights your misunderstandings. We don't care who sets thrust or the x-wind limit, but the moment I'm demanded to take out the rubbish and told I can't use a specific coat hangar - I'm out. Coincidentally, I take out the trash on most of my flights and I'm usually early to the aircraft and get the walk around done (despite FO rarely being PM first sector) - it's in good faith .. a big difference. The 15000 hr captain and 250 hr are equals as humans, despite the captain being the source of most wisdom, except that one time he misses something that the 250hr FO sees. You don't seem to grasp this - that has the potential to be deadly.
You’re Welcome Tecnam,
You got a little bit overwrought there didn’t you? It went from coat hangers and rubbish bags to ‘deadly’ in a sentence or two. I’ve several decades of flying, CRM training and safety work so yes, I definitely grasp ‘this’. It sounds a bit like you applied for EI and either didn’t get in or left. Either is fine with me and I’m no EI fan boy, far from it, but now you’re spouting emotive nonsense on a thread about good airlines to work for.
Regarding your horror of moving a small plastic bag with sandwich wrappers and coffee cups in it about two meters, well step up the new Rosa Parks. It’s a requirement to keep the cockpit tidy (a SAFA audit pick up). My understanding of it is either pilot or a cleaner removes it but you just have your bit of persecution.
The incident you described with the j/s was highly exceptional but you seem determined to imply it’s not by ‘asking the question’. No it isn’t, clear enough for you or do you need a PhD thesis on it?
I hope the BA gig works out for you, let us know how you get on. It’s a very long haul airline and I just have the feeling that a leg with you could be ultra long haul.