Its important with the crew and the other Pilot your with , but other that that?
My Aviation teacher was giving the whole story about the Aviation industry is all about Team work , Airport jobs i can see more so than Airline Pilot.
It’s entirely necessary, whether you are a solo pilot or part of a crew.
After all, beyond the mechanics of flying, you are part of one very big coordinated team.
As a crewmember on the flight deck, you are part of that team – that team is coordinating with ATC.. another team. Your feedback individually and as part of the team that’s flying that bird are also part of a big team that all contributes to getting the big or small ‘bird’ from A to B via somewhere and back to terra firm in one piece, all cargo intact/alive (accordingly) as efficiently and as intelligently as possible with the most minmiun of unnecessary risk – and don’t forget, on that plane, you and the others in the crew aint in isolation – all around the region, all around the world, there are many many more crews and solos trying to do the same.
Common sense, skill, perception and being able to assess the situation constantly and co-ordinating with everyone you encounter (especially ATC and other pilots who you may have to assist) can in the worst case scenarios be the ‘teamwork’ that is the difference between death and a landing you just about walk away from … but all things being equal, it’s the difference between air crash apocolypse in a bad situation and mere a day you’d never want to reencounter having all got out of it in one piece.
You wonder why instructors and assessors can be so harsh and critical..??
It’s because their primary goal is to let those who can pass the goal of pilots, they ones who can do.. can think on their feet and be part of one massive team of responsible folks.
Think about it, if pilots and ATC and techs didn’t coordinate so well (i left a lot out of that list, but you get the picture), what is for the most part a highly sucessful sequence of repeated events could be an absolute disaster of world proportions if they employed the kinda cooperative coordination the average driver employs on a motorway/interstate…
Me, i’d be thankful that pilots and aviation crews on the whole, are a concerned, coordinated, and highly skilled bunch of folk who make good out of what is a battle of will and intent vs physics.. aka flying.
Helicopter pilots are technically the one armed boxers fighting the for the aviation equiv of a world championship boxing title, where the opponent called physics, is something that in an avatar, would be the Zeus of boxing – it’s battle all the way, but skill and coordination and cooperation in all the right proportions means the ‘one armed boxer’ punches above his weight, even if it’s still permanently a gamble that will eventually roll ’snake eyes’ given enough time.