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Old 2nd Mar 2003, 11:49
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Menen
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Air Support. You ask where are the captains of old? Well I'll tell you. There are no real captains anymore. Their new title is Pilot Flying (PF) and Pilot Not Flying (PNF). Two anonymous faceless figures of theoretically equal experience and therefore skills. Only one gets paid more.

The "captain" does not make command decisions anymore. He seeks advice, asks opinions, sniffs the air, and meekly asks the first officer what he thinks. And nowadays virtually abrogates most of the responsibility to his PF unless that is the captain then he duck shoves it to the PNF. It's called CRM and teamwork and the captain is the team-leader - or is that the PF?