Originally Posted by
gulliBell
.. and they can read a map ...
...which of course is a really useful skill for an offshore pilot. "Ooh look, there's a wave, see if you can find it on the map and they we will know where we are"
Hmmmmm, anyway there are incompetent pilots of many flavours - the ones you describe plus the ones who alienate their copilots by being knowall "When I were a lad we did it properly, like this..." (and then majorly departs for SOPs), want to disengage the automation because they don't understand how it works or how best to use it (and then stuff up), insist on getting bogged down with trivia and fatuous things like map reading offshore because it puts them back in their comfort zone (seen a HUGE amount of that in my time as a copilot). etc etc.