Bender is correct here, though I think what he was trying to say came across the wrong way.BenderGonzales said:
1st of all, there are drastic differences in a professional setting (My Co-Pilot) and a social setting (My Girlfriend).
I have seen Legacy's posts, not only here, but other posts as well, and I do not think he is the kind of guy Bender is referring to. I have seen more times than not, Captain's saying MY Copilot, MY, MY, MY. From time to time, it is OK, but to be referred to in the possessive in a professional environment is unprofessional. There are those captains that do that ALL THE TIME no matter what they are talking about. In my experiences, it has been ego driven. The ones that are ALWAYS saying My-Copilot are the ones that want you to know that they are the captain and in charge. Who cares? Most dont. I have heard the same pilots talk about the co-pilots wanting "Their Seat" (the left seat). I didn't know the captain owned the seat, and furthermore, of course they want that seat. Who aspires to sit in the right seat their whole career?
Finally, I have also noticed those that ALWAYS say "My Seat/My Co-Pilot" are the ones that make all the decisions as if they were flying single pilot, then when the screw something up, it's now, "WE". NO, NO, NO. It's been you, you, you excluding the other pilot the whole time and now all of the sudden something is not on the up and up with the PAX or the Company, and now it's "We deceided". Homey don't play that. I don't think so.
Please keep in mind, I am not saying all the Capts are like this, but the ones that are always talking about the other pilot as if they own them are the pilots I am speaking about.
Another thing the bugs me is I used to work with a guy who was a GREAT pilot, but the kind of guy you didn't want to be around for more than an hour a month. I learned a lot from him by figuring things out on my own(he had an ego and hated for anyone else to get the same training he had), but everytime this guy met someone that was in aviation, he would list all the type ratings he had. Like anyone cares. It would be embarrassing to see a buddy in an FBO and I would be obligated to introduce him to my buddy (BTW, I NEVER referred to him as my Captain), and I would want to hide cause 30 seconds after I made the intro, he'd be listing his types. My buddy would call later that night and be like WTF? Who was that and why did he tell me all of his types? The best was when he once chatted up a guy in jeans at an FBO in Ypsilanti, MI. He started listing his types to this guy, and the guy in jeans was like, "Oh, so you are just getting started in aviation? What have you been doing all these years before you were a pilot?" Turns out the guy started listing his types, and after his tour in the 89th flying AF1 was over, he went on to fly some real heavy corporate iron. Just shut this guy up, and the guy I was flying with got P#ssed off on the way home complaining about what a jerk the AF1 guy was. The guy was real cool, so I guess the only reason he theough he was a jerk is because he had more experience and rating than the guy I was flying with. The ride home was conducted mostly in silence.
Nobody I fly with cares either.
