A lot of comments here criticising this captain (and maybe 20 something captains in general) for lacking experience, lacking knowledge, lacking judgement etc due to age. The captain in question has been flying as an FO in this company for over 5 years, meaning 4000-5000ish hours in the right seat, meaning they are not exactly inexperienced. 5 years from employment to command upgrade is a substantial amount of time at a lot of airlines (and would be considered long at some), so would these people criticise someone in their 30's or 40's who had started flying later in life, and three done 5yrs in the RH seat before upgrading?