Hardly surprising really, given the fact that at the age of twenty two with 200hours, no one is much good for anything anyway!
In any event, if First Officers were thought to be of any use at all these days, the manufacturers would not be constantly striving for greater automation in the cockpit. Neither, incidentally, would there be a debate raging elsewhere on this forum about flying single crew King Airs.
It is actually high time that F/Os acknowledged the indisputable fact that they introduced the concept of CRM into aviation for purely selfish reasons,and, having done so, have never become proficient in its exercise themselves. First Officers always seek to post blame elsewhere. They should accept the fact that they are almost certainly completely superfluous appendages in today's advanced aviation atmosphere. It is hardly surprising therefore, that Captains, especially experienced ones, become exasperated at their very existence, let alone at their behaviour.
