Originally Posted by
Final 3 Greens
Can I gently prod this thread back on to track, which is the behaviour of a positioning captain in uniform blatantly ignoring the safety brief, talking over it and then waltzing around the cabin to get a coffee, when the aircraft commander has left the belt sign on.
In my opinion this sets a dreadful example to the pax, who may learn to disregard the brief and seat belt sign.
Unfortunately, there are many people who are prone to adopt such attitudes - more or less summed up as "the rules don't apply to me". IMHO, this is not far removed from flight crew who know very well that they have to take their shoes off to go through security, and refuse to do so, thus delaying their paying customers. But at least those crew have been suspended for that particular bit of idiocy.