One brisk morning I asked the (very new) FO to switch the ice protection on while climbing through a few layers. He promptly fiddles with knobs and comments: 'You know this is pretty cool, I've never flown through cloud before!'
My response was simply
Apparently he did his IFR training during the summer in the southern states and pretty much got the job with my company straight away. Sim was obviously fake weather and the line training was during a prolonged streak of CAVOK.
Needless to say that entire trip consisted of me going
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Fuel-Off