At last a glimmer of light:-
"Blame it on the culture they came from. They had been beaten into doing it a certain way when they were F/O's or being upgraded, and they were going to damn well pass on all the furphies as well as insist that all pilots under check or training knew all the trivia no matter how irrelevant."
Thank you Gas-Chamber
PS. I dont think I accused anyone of unprofessionalism. None of them were that.
Capt Jack Sparrow.