Yeah, good post, but it does not deal with the underlying issue.
You pointed out correctly that the skipper will take the full blow in case of a decision that upsets the dish-dashs. How on earth can he influence a urgent decision making from the hell-hole TC banned him into?
To be able to influence or not, that is the question.
Especially if you have to eventually sit in for it.
I am with the lot, I trust 95% of our FOs. But the remaining 5% are very scary, believe me, and in our system they are hard to make out.
Where does that leave me?