And those who live in glass houses......?
The amount of slagging of other pilot groups on these boards is horrific at times.
When Sherm was young, outfits like Singapore Airlines, Cathay and Thai were tiny, barely a blip on the Kangaroo route radar. Emirates didn't exist. Now they are giants, dominating the world. yet you don't see Qantas pilots bad-mouthing their flight decks do you? But effectively they have "cost" Qantas jobs as they have soaked up all the growth on key routes.
Yet the home grown airlines that have been at the spearhead of growth and innovation, Virgin and Jetstar in particular......are abused, vilified and derided. Pornstar, Scabstar, onestar etc etc. References to working conditions as "obscene", photographs of monkeys and peanuts etc etc. How do the posters of such drivel think that affects morale in other cockpits?
The essence of professionalism vs the trades is that professionals set their own standards, and work to high standards as though there was no regulator. And that applies to how we talk of each other too. It doesn't have to be the chummy atmosphere of the university common room or the smoking room at a gentlemen's club.....but standards are things we drive, that we uphold, that we would expect to be offered to us.
Before any of us spends more time bagging management lets be awful sure that we treat each other better than they do?
The most important part of CRM is the bit we can fix, especially those privileged to command: "SET THE TONE".
And I'll start: if I have ever used the term "Sky Gods" I apologize. I no longer share the skies with those folk but I am sure they're just a bunch of around about average joes doing their job and doing it well and with their own points of view. So be it, that's fine by me.