Well said A-3T.
We're getting a lot of magenta children these days coming to
this region, and the spoilt brats amongst 'em nearly all come
from Europe. A few comments I've gotten from these twerps
before I eventually spat the dummy and read the Riot Act -
"YOU HAD NO RIGHT TO TAKE CONTROL FROM ME! NO RIGHT
WHATSOEVER!" (the kid caused a terrain warning and just
sat there with his finger up his arse).
"I AM FULLY ENTITLED TO FLY AT LEAST ONE SECTOR!" (both
sectors were snowbound TOs and LDGs in strong crosswinds.
You'd have to be nuts to give it to a 250hr kid and then lose
your job when he skews the thing into a ditch).
There were other verbalities that pissed me off even more but
the above are typical examples.
Never had a problem with Statesiders or Canaks. The Poms are
mainly ok too.
Like you A-3T I was also a FO under very capable old school
captains and before CRM was invented. If you could not fly a
B727 completely raw data with the FD108s off from TOPD to
the ground off a NDB app in reasonable weather you weren't
even considered a pilot's bootlace. The slightest backchat by
a mere 2,500hr brat would bring on the wrath of most of the
seasoned skippers.