'Why are only pilots captains?' - well Shadwell answered his own question in his opening post - THEY AREN'T!! So why 3+ more pages?
As for the 'no stck no vote' replies from some of the pilots, that is the sort of arrogant remark I would have expected in the days before we tried to apply CRM. I used to fly with a pilot captain who consulted his crew in a much fairer manner. We all used to get a vote on any issue, and then the captain would cast his Union block vote of 5 million!! This lead to a much happier crew, where we all felt our opinion was valued ......
