The Job in Hand
A Quiz-------Who wants to be a Millionaire.
Its always baffled me the section of our community that use the Flight Deck as an examination centre. Invariably radio calls end up being missed or requiring at the very least repeats. Saw it myself recently while jump seating. All singing and dancing training Capt with new f/o, demonstrating the A/P in HDG mode,cruises through waypoint and when I tapped his shoulder to point it out, he just wagged his finger for me to wait until he was ready. Needless to say I did not wait as we were heading for unfriendly airspace. He bought a lot of beer after.......
The job in hand is the operation of the Aircraft, leave the Quiz for terra firma.