The_Russian said:
WTF do hours have to do with it. When you blame things on the FO, it is because of your lack of confidence as a CPT. I hate flying with guys who think like you do.
What about a 700 hour FO fumbling thru trying to interpret taxi diagrams and instructions at La Guardia have to do with the confidence of the CPT? In a dual crew enviroment, one taxi's the airplane, while the other reads the instructions and keeps track where your at on the diagram. I know plenty of low time pilots that it's a challenge for them to do that. Why would a Captain want to have to babysit the FO and taxi the airplane at the same time in an extremely busy airport like LGA or ORD? That's all he's saying.
BEGINING RANT....
Now Russian, we've always co-existed on this board, and I've kept my mouth shut many times, but I'm going to say something now. Your an admitted ex-Gulfstream student, that is PFT thru and thru, and you are the type of person that every professional pilot on this board talks bad about.
You are extremly unprofessional in your responses, you have an extremely childish mentality, and you've got a lot of pinned up anger you need to get rid of. Now whether your upset and defenseful because you are/were a GIA pilot, I can't say, and frankly I don't care. But I've always gotten the feeling that you have spent a lot of time in your short career defending yourself and your decisions to other people, and thats why you go off the broom handle everytime someone says anything negative about GIA.
Now I'm not saying all of this to start a flame-war or to get into a p1ssing match, but I think you need to just step back and take a look at things from other peoples perspective, and see where we're all coming from. Just because you bought a job in the right sight does not mean that you are a well seasoned veteran of the flying industry, and you sitting in the rigth-seat for someone is worth your weight in gold.
But I digress now, and I hope you take it all for what its worth, and be a little more open-minded from now on.