RN is truly a menace to himself and all near him. That includes people in other aircraft. I will always, always, always remember taking the aircraft from him on the ground in MEM to avoid being T-boned by a NW 727 because he didn't want to wait to talk to ground after clearing 36C. One month off IOE and I am standing on the brakes and b!tch slapping his hands off the power levers because he won't respond to THREE calls of "Stop, we're aren't cleared". Thanks to the 72 crew who turned on EVERY light they had while slamming on their brakes.
At the time Airlink had no Pro Stans committee and the Chief Pilot, TM, did not want to hear about it. He had known RN for 15 years and that was all he needed to know. (And that attitude is all you need to know about the lack of safety culture at PCL under TM)
This wouldn't be so bad if on the previous leg into GSP he hadn't gotten the GPWS "glideslope" and responded with "Captain's Visual".
In all fairness, he was under a lot of stress. He had just been offline for over a week because of failing a PT--not a PC, a PT! After flying the RJ for 6 months he was so incompetent in his procedures that he kept combining Saab and RJ items while doing V1 cuts. It was so egregious that the check airman, one of the nicest people at the company, had to unsat him.
As to the jumpseat, he is paranoid that someone will spy on/record/report his activities(?) while flying. Mostly it consists of poor airmanship, irregular procedures, racist diatribes, threats of violence (yes, really) against other people at the company, making farm animal noises on ground frequency, and the repeated threat that he was just going to walk off the plane at the gate because "he didn't need this %^#*$ anymore."
RN has no business holding a medical certificate. Knowing he was behind the wheel of a pickup truck is sufficiently frightening. I had no idea he was flying again.
Must be nice being a charter member of the North Mississippi Flying Club.
