Also, I did not wish to offend with the “paper captian” comment. My point was walking in off the street with a “captian’s” license having no real/commercial time working as mate,AB,etc…
I won’t be “that guy” hence all the questions blasted into cyberspace, not at the captian on my new job the first day. :~)
Asking questions here keeps me from looking like an idiot on the job. Now armed with good info I can speak inteligently. See now, I won’t make the “chucky cheeze” seatime comments on board.