This is not to say, of course, that there are not some mighty fine First Officers available.
I flew with a recently ex RAF Herc captain whom some of the other captains found to be a little abrasive.
I, OTOH, thought: 'This guy is sharp, knows his stuff and may get me out of the dwang one day' and so it came to pass that a malevolent sim trainer wrote a vicious LOFT scenario and, whilst I was thinking "Fvck me!", lo, the erstwhile officer suggested a plan, nay, THE plan which we successfully executed before departing to the bar and rejoicing.
