I want my fellow work colleagues to speak well about me behind my back. I wonder what they all say about you ? You think they all enjoy flying with you and look forward to it ? Probably you don't care.
John, you're right. I don't care what anyone says about me behind my back. Being a captain or first officer isn't a popularity contest. What I do want people to do is to respect my position, rank and authority (as I do theirs) and if I ask them to do something then they should do it. With the usual disclaimers of dangerous or illegal requests. If they enjoy flying with me then that's ok, if they don't that's ok too. As long as they do their job as I do mine.
In my airline, I see the job being done very effectively every day whilst both the PF and PNF might by reading.
Are you serious? Both pilots reading? Who's monitoring who, what and how? Can you really say with any authority that two pilots reading at the same time is as safe as two pilots monitoring at the same time?
But most importantly, I want to enjoy my job and enjoy the people I work with.
Except you can't enjoy your job without partaking in something that is irrelevant, not part of that job and to be honest quite antisocial! How do you think people enjoy your company when you've got your nose buried in the latest Mills and Boon?
The
most important thing is to actually do your job whether you enjoy it or not.
A37575,
And that's where self-discipline and professionalism should play a part. We need to
use technology and the automatics rather than rely on them completely.
It should fall on us to maintain that discipline, pass it on, encourage others to use it and not let them start down the slippery slope of what essentially amounts to laziness.
Unfortunately too many people these days see that kind of thing as an afront to their right to do whatever the hell they feel like. Tough.
To paraphrase Mrs T, this man is not for turning!