"There is no lack of manners or good airmanship now"
Your leg, says the captain to his co-pilot during flight planning.
OK, says the co-pilot. Not a word of thanks of course, which seems par for the course in todays airline flight deck. Perhaps to actually say thanks, is seen as a sign of weakness. If so, more's the pity. Surely isn't it plain old fashioned good manners?
En route bad weather is looming and after studying the weather pattern on the radar, the captain decides to track well clear of a storm front. He asks the co-pilot to turn left to the required new heading in order to miss the storm by 20 miles.
Copilot replies that it is his leg - not the captain's - and he sees no reason to turn yet to avoid the storm. And yes, that is exactly what happened on one recent flight in Australia in a well known domestic airline flying between Brisbane and Sydney.
Isolated case you may say - but what's this about "there is no lack of manners or good airmanship, now" ?