Percieved abilities - interesting comment 4iia. That could apply to F/O's (as you point out), 3 yr EK skippers (good blokes) and DEC's (mainly good blokes - but a couple of real half wits
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You have this fetish for EXPERIENCE as being the be all and end all in flying - you really are living in a backwards age old bean. Many of aviations nastiest accidents have been with the "highly experienced" skipper driving into the ground - or another aeroplane a la Tenerife.....
I think the reason that a lot of EK F/O's are p1ssed off is due to the bullsh1t that's raining down from above!! Plus the fact that we're bailing out
A FEW - (minority) of these wonderful DEC's when they are being paid almost twice as much as we are!! Of course 4iia, along with flying your wonderful TriStar you also raised 15 kids on $10 per month with no hassle - God, you are my hero
By the way - the NBO GPWS (so I'm told) hard warning was NOT reacted to, pretty effing scary....................................