And how do you want to be treated as an FO when you get to the major?
Shall assumptions be made that you have no Captain exp. and you're just another seat warmer. Do you want the captain to say, you're at a major I am done hand holding you guys. Wanna go Transoceanic? Do you want the Captains to show you how to fly the Atlantic routes or expect you to be a schoolhouse wunderkind?
As a Capts we can show the new guys how to do it right or we can be bitter pilots and forward our attitudes on to them. The fact is we cannot control who sits in the right seat. As FAA qualified FO's we get what we get. These new guys despertly want to fit it and will copy the culture provided, right or wrong. If they see poor captains they take it at face value as they way its done. They do not know the diff between a good Capt and a poor one. We need to be leaders and show them the professional way. Sure it takes more effort but you'll feel better in two years when you have to deadhead or j/s and said FO is the Capt. (cause it is gonna happen)
Problem is... if the poor Capts won't teach these guys how to talk on the radio, xwind landings etc.. then when they fly with the other capts they are going to ask who've they've been flying with and when the names come up we'll know who the poor Captains are....
In addition, we provide a negative learning environemnt to the new FO's only to shove them off on to your fellow Captains. When you get a new FO do you want one that has just flown a good four day with a Captain that took the time to teach, empower and promote or do you want a fearful, angry bitter FO that has regressed all he's learned from the school house cause some tool Capt treated him like garbage?
