Yeovil - excellent post, being part of what was once a well motivated and happy Regional Airline (Manx / BRAL) and is now unfortunate enough to be called BA Citiexpress, may I totally agree with your assessment of the BA culture.
Whilst there ARE some decent guys around in BA, most are exactly as you describe. Our SOPs change on a seemingly daily basis, the extent of the sheer arrogance of the BA guys at all leveles is only matched by the levels of losses that their management has achieved for us. The BA mainline pilots is fairly average - by and large pretty similar to any other group of pilots, yet their misconception that they really ARE the world's best is breathtakingly misplaced. The incidents we have had........
Tandem Rotor, I have to say that was an intriguing post. Maybe it will help though, because your view of your elder and more senior colleagues is pretty much how we non-mainline guys view our secondees - now you may be able to understand a little more, and hopefully thus post a little less.
Fat chance!
