Just after I got my command on a large a/c with lots of engines go great distances, I was informed by an i/c fa that "the trouble is that captains think they have more authority than they have and i/c's are reluctant to use the command that they have been given."
I initially thought that I was being wound up however after further discussion I found that he believed that what he was saying was true. This chap was a CC trainer.
Methinks we may have lost the plot.
