`Working together` does not mean the captain must ask the first officer or second officer his opinion for every tactical decision. It should never be a committee situation. There is no room for a voting democracy in the cockpit much as some crew members would love that.
Since the first mention of CRM (which was originally aimed at curbing arrogance in some captains and a very tiny minority at that - although every captain eventually became tarred the same brush) CRM principles have been either deliberately abused by some subordinate crew members or been genuinely misunderstood.
Tact and good manners has been replaced in some Western cockpits by downright smart-arsing designed to promote one-upmanship where the unstated aim is to impress the captain with eager-beaver way ahead of the aircraft attitude.
Well said
PCars. As a captain you often get these people who couldn't fly well at all, who then go and
bitch to the CP that captain XXXX doesn't use CRM!
And of course our MS Flight Sim gamers don't pull the same
stunt with local captains, no sirree! They pull it on Western
expat blokes like me, thinking we're somehow both on an
"even keel"!
I find some (but of course not all) of these Y-gen European
wonderkids to be by far the worst. Fortunately in the Asian
mob with which I fly, the CP plants his boot firmly up their
Euro-tails, with the proviso that their employment will be
under review if he complains again.
They don't last very long.