My apologies if I got a bit "touchy", comes with the ageing process maybe.
Quite likely...look and read between the lines for the humour...
I never had a Professional FE leave the APU running after takeoff.
I never had a Professional FE leave all the generators off line and still have essential power still powered by the APU as I started to pull out on the runway to takeoff. (Looked like a goddamn Christmas tree back there.)
I never had a Professional FE nearly run the number 2 fuel tank out of fuel.
Likewise and, I never had a professional Flight Engineer try to do the finger-dance on the electrical panel on the 'ole L1011, trying to manually sync the generators, either.
This was a typical pilot/FE scenario, simply because they didn't (couldn't be bothered to) actually listen in ground school and pay attention.
NO surprise there...these guys were too damn interested in the RHS.
And, when they eventually arrived there, they set a very poor standard of performance, which they constantly failed to achieve.
No surprise there, either.
