Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 150; Flight Crew Type 21000
Workload
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Maintenance
General Release Refused / Aircraft Not Accepted
Aircraft; Company Policy; Equipment / Tooling
Deadhead to pick up flight. Upon arrival; am informed that the last Crew assigned the aircraft refused to fly it. I told Ops 'I'd take a look' to see if it was dispatchable. Upon inspection of the logbook; I noticed that the FMS was non-operable and to put some icing on the cake; the pressurization system had failed also and was being run in manual mode. I then refused the aircraft also. Now; in all honesty; if I had to fly around Texas on a bright sunny day such that it was; this aircraft would have been workable (Notice I didn't say 'Fine'). But to go to a busy airport in the country with an aircraft that can't do LNAV or VNAV and doing it single Pilot-like because if you haven't run a pressure controller in manual; you'd quickly realize that your basically single-Piloted because it takes that much attention from the FO running that system alone. So; I utilized my judgement built on years of flying and opted not to take it.
Captain refused aircraft due to multiple maintenance issues.