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Old 30th Jul 2016, 19:27
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tubby linton
 
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Motivating the unmotivated first officer

I was wondering what strategies you use to motivate the unmotivated and lazy first officer without ruining the CRM for the rest of the flight?
It is easy just to sit and pick up everything they have neglected to do, but a crew is meant to be a team and the above strategy may alienate the subject so they actually do less. My problem is that when I was an FO I tried to think of everything the captain may have wanted and did my best to assist him. I certainly haven't come across somebody at the opposite end of the scale before.
I remember the old adage about copilots just being ballast and captains flying single pilot, but I thought that we had moved on from there.
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