Twinpilot
"Obey Me!"
- Joined
- Sep 2, 2008
- Posts
- 21
Just had an FO from a Pilot Mill somewhere in Florida. 230 hours, and 46 hours of IOE...let's start adding this one up. Now I'll give the KID credit...he was smart...book smart, and quite obviously studied alot. But, after 2 days of listening to him tell me how to correctly fly an airplane (ie: using flight spoilers installed on the airplane is incredibly dangerous on a super-critical airfoil...sorry, but the engineers that built the airplane didn't put those there as a self-destruct button!) he was given a visual approach 15 miles out to a runway different from what we had previously been given, if we wanted it. We took it, and he tried to program the FMS, play with the autopilot, and such before I finally pointed out that the runway was "out the window...so just fly it." Needless to say, we spent 10 miles just trying to point the nose at the runway. Finally, I took the controls from him and landed uneventfully. The next two days were very pleasant as this fool realized he couldn't even perform the first thing you ever learn! Looking at the runway and flying the airplane to it! That being said...I have flown with some great FO's and value their input in the cockpit. Keeps us all safer...as stated before, the airplane still requires two of us up there.