My Captain is on speed!
Not literally of course
I have just finished a 2 day trip with a really nice chap who I got on well with on a personal level. However his attitude to, let's say 'commercial operations' seemed a little too frantic.
When it was his turn to set up the wizzadry, he would remove all speed control constraints for the entire trip, leaving me to find that he had done this when I came to check the flight plan. Subsequently all approaches were flown on the barbers pole. I was a 'wuss' if I slowed down early etc. Anyway, needless to say as I didn't always have the same mental picture as him some of my approaches ended up with me being down too early (as ATC took us further than expected) and others with it all being a bit of a rush - gear used early etc.
Now I don't believe anything was dangerous as the weather generally was fine, but it did make me a little uneasy. I am quite a laid back sort of bloke (I think) and so my way of dealing with this was to joke with him that we were doing another 'Schumacher approach' etc. He still didn't change his ways though.
I am a little concerned that someone with a little less experience who flies with him is going to certainly have his confidence dented by this chap or end up practising several go-arounds.
Maybe I should have told him straight, rather than making a big joke of it. Other people must have had this experience in the past, how did you deal with it?