Great post, informative great answers and interesting. One of the best posts on this forum in the last couple of months.

That was a good thing in disguise, as you know, an F/O is supposed to be watching to make sure the left-seater does things correctly, so it was probably decent practice. If the guy in a certain KLM 747's right seat had been doing that a bit better, there might have been a happier ending in store for his passengers.Al

Except for the next year and a half while he was still working I could never fly easy with him,used take the joy out of flying with all that complaining he did....