Both need to be willing to do extra work,YOUR attitude needs to be changed,the captain does NOT OWE you anything,join the ranks,and stop whining.
What a rude and arrogant reply to a perfectly reasonable post by Superpilot. You should be bloody ashamed of yourself
From my experience, keen and enthusiastic pilots generally retain those attributes long into their flying career. First officers fortunate enough to share the cockpit with such personalities should thank their lucky stars.
As D.P. Davies stated in his fine book, Handling the Big Jets, quote: "The demand of jet transport flying can best be met by enthusiasm. Personal enthusiasm for the job is beyond value because it is a built-in productive force, and those who have it do not have to be poushed into practice and search for knowledge.
Enthusiasm thus generates its own protection. This is the frame of mind which needs to be developed for the best execution of the airline pilot's task" Unquote.
It is usually the lazy captain that has allowed himself to become so automation dependant that he simply cannot be bothered to let his first officer practice his manual flight skills. The common excuse is "workload." Most probably too, he has lost his own youthful passion for technical excellence. He has been there, done that. On autopilot of course. He sees enthusiasm in his F/O as irritating and a damned nuisance. The same personality type is quick to dredge up excuses because all he wants is to sit back and take it easy in the LH seat. In other words don't rock the boat, son. Again, D.B Davies covers that nicely when he states: "As we get older we all become slightly more lazy, slightly more tired."
If the F/O asks to turn off the FD for some hand flying practice, then be thankful he is that keen and enthusiastic for his job; even if you are just in it for the money and nothing else.
Maybe captain was fatigued after a week of 4 sector days and decided it would be best if use autopilot untill 500ft or so, because PM has much more work to do if PF is flying manually
Jesus wept!! Here comes more excuses. It wasn't that long ago in another life that this scribe was flying four engine Lincoln bombers on ten hour flights with no weather radar and most of it manual single pilot flying because of old fashioned unreliable autopilots. A week of four sector days would have been most welcome. PM has much more work to do if PF is flying manually? I am quite astonished at such tosh.