Flight Crew Last 90 Days 188
Communication Breakdown; Situational Awareness
This was the first leg of a three-day trip. When the Captain arrived at the airplane; the first thing that he said to me after sitting down in his seat was; 'I don't brief anything.' I said; 'Seriously?' He replied; 'Yes. I use my brain power for more important things.' He failed to brief the departure; or any other flight concerns. Prior to descent on the PINNG1 Arrival into PHX; he failed to brief the arrival and cross check the fixes. I checked them myself; and selected the arrival runway to add the appropriate fixes at the bottom of the arrival. Approaching the BRDEY intersection; there is a speed restriction of 250 knots. The Captain asked ATC for relief on the speed; and it was granted. He then accelerated to 320 knots for the rest of the descent. He leveled off at 10;000 FT to slow in anticipation of the restriction at PUKRE; between 8000 and 9000 FT. When he realized that he needed to descend to 9000 FT; he pushed the nose over and flew at 275 knots down to 9000 FT to make the altitude restriction. The next conflict came for the restriction at FINAP between 5000 and 6000 FT. I told him that we were going to be high; as the vertical trend showed 500 feet high and growing. He said that it would be close enough. I contacted ATC to tell them that we would be high; and they told us to go direct to the field and cleared us for a visual approach. We flew the approach and landed without further incident. The Captain needs to be retrained and given another check ride to make sure that he follows Company procedures and FARs. I also will not leave the gate with another Captain that tells me that they don't do any briefings.
B737 First Officer is informed by his Captain on the first flight of the trip that he does not give briefings. The First Officer describes the errors that occur during the first RNAV arrival.