@Varigflier
Your post
At my airline it's a joke. Talking on the radio is about all F/Os can do. And this is a large South American airline
is not showing great confidence into the F/O's. But this is mostly not a problem produced by the F/O's, it's just poor training and a airline philosophy from the ice age. However, I assume you have been checked for the whole program in the sim?
How shall the F/O take care of the ship if the old guy gets incapacitated? This is one of the tasks an F/O has positively to perfom during line intro, otherwise no line check (company standart, not only my opinion)
(I remember a F/O during line intro, who immediately took the mike to declare an emergency after I explained him, that we will now simulate my incapacitation and he has to bring the a/c back home alone. A split second after my first little shock I realised, that he had just before silently switched the radio to a blind freq. LOL together and he did a brilliant job during the rest of the game)