Wikiposts
Search
Questions If you are a professional pilot or your work involves professional aviation please use this forum for questions. Enthusiasts, please use the 'Spectators Balcony' forum.

What to do?

Thread Tools
 
Search this Thread
 
Old 17th Apr 2009, 15:41
  #1 (permalink)  
Thread Starter
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: The Middle East
Posts: 118
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
What to do?

What do you do when you are rostered to fly with a complete ******* **** that you can't stand.

Do you

a) phone in sick or
b) turn up and grin and bear it.

Got this situation tomorrow, any advise appreciated.

Last edited by mona lot; 17th Apr 2009 at 16:13.
mona lot is offline  
Old 17th Apr 2009, 17:48
  #2 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: London, Berlin, Bucharest
Posts: 284
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
slip some laxative in his tea/ coffee during the pre flight briefing?
Nashers is offline  
Old 17th Apr 2009, 18:31
  #3 (permalink)  
Gender Faculty Specialist
 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Stop being so stupid, it's Sean's turn
Posts: 1,893
Received 6 Likes on 5 Posts
You don't have to do either. Just turn up to work, be professional and then go home. You don't even have to speak to him except when it is necessary to do the job.

It might help if you tell us why he is a ******* ****.
Chesty Morgan is offline  
Old 17th Apr 2009, 20:18
  #4 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Where the Quaboag River flows, USA
Age: 71
Posts: 3,438
Received 8 Likes on 6 Posts
You could do what one Eastern MIA-based crew did. Watch him leave the employee parking lot, not description of car. Call the highway patrol and report a drug deal involving that car and that he left towards Naples. In the '80s, said Corvette was rather well gone over by the FHP. That cooled him a might.

GF
galaxy flyer is offline  
Old 17th Apr 2009, 21:17
  #5 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Northampton
Posts: 5
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Just do your job. One day the seats might be reversed
rogerg is offline  
Old 17th Apr 2009, 21:37
  #6 (permalink)  
Warning Toxic!
Disgusted of Tunbridge
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Hampshire, UK
Posts: 4,011
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Is he looking forward any more to flying with you? Do you think he regards you as a PITA t*****r he has to spend the next 12 hours with, somehow? So why don't you be professional and go in and do your job and rein in your ego, because that is what your customers are paying for, and only by working (successfully) with a wide range of people will you pick up the responsibility and professionalism to have the maturity to be a captain yourself one day and be able to work effectively with a wide range of copilots.

It comes as a shock when you are promoted when you suddenly learn that there are just as many t*****rs in the right hand seat as you feel are in the left hand seat.
Rainboe is offline  
Old 18th Apr 2009, 04:03
  #7 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Arizona USA
Posts: 8,571
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
It comes as a shock when you are promoted when you suddenly learn that there are just as many t*****rs in the right hand seat as you feel are in the left hand seat.
Yup, 'tis a fact.
I have one response for these types...'gear up and shut up.'
The others?
They are left to their own decisions, IE: if they then paint themselves right and truly into a corner during approach, it is up to them to get out of the problem without bent metal.
They learn, soon enough.
411A is offline  
Old 18th Apr 2009, 11:43
  #8 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: uk
Posts: 1,022
Likes: 0
Received 5 Likes on 4 Posts
On 'Terms n endearments' Mona Lot states "I am a Captain, I have been for some time".

And you're scared to fly with someone else? You're the captain, you set the flight deck tone, you make it work. That's one of the many reasons you get the 4 rings and the higher pay.

Does that sound a bit harsh? Oh well.

Good luck next wk!!

DH
deltahotel is offline  
Old 18th Apr 2009, 12:58
  #9 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Argentina
Posts: 2
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
what to do

If this person is in fact a captain she is not qualified to command
pynchat is offline  
Old 18th Apr 2009, 17:24
  #10 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: London
Posts: 516
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
pynchat, you have a rather naive understanding of how things work!
Nicholas49 is offline  

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off



Contact Us - Archive - Advertising - Cookie Policy - Privacy Statement - Terms of Service

Copyright © 2024 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. All rights reserved. Use of this site indicates your consent to the Terms of Use.