A320 captain believes that some first officers at his company are becoming complacent and are not co...

Narrative:

Prior to descent I asked the first officer to inform me when he was ready for a briefing for the ILS; [but] when he informed me he was 'ready'; he had no approach plate out and didn't care. I asked him again and he informed me the frequency and identifier were located on the pfd. I asked him for a third time and he pulled out his publications binder and 'half' followed me through the approach and then put away his binder with an 'attitude'. Last month I had a similar incident on arrival when an first officer informed me he didn't need to pull out any publications during my brief. After explaining company SOP he conformed and I had no further problems during the four day trip. In june; I had a similar experience prior to approach with an first officer who would not pull out any publications during the entire flight. Is this a trend and are other captains having these problems? I'm not back in the air force flying a single seat aircraft. This is a dangerous trend of first officers deliberately being cocky; complacent; and arrogant. I strongly believe flight standards should issue a bulletin to airbus pilots explaining the seriousness of this matter especially at airports they're familiar with.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A320 Captain believes that some First Officers at his company are becoming complacent and are not complying with SOP when it comes to approach briefings.

Narrative: Prior to descent I asked the First Officer to inform me when he was ready for a briefing for the ILS; [but] when he informed me he was 'ready'; he had no approach plate out and didn't care. I asked him again and he informed me the frequency and identifier were located on the PFD. I asked him for a third time and he pulled out his publications binder and 'half' followed me through the approach and then put away his binder with an 'attitude'. Last month I had a similar incident on arrival when an First Officer informed me he didn't need to pull out any publications during my brief. After explaining company SOP he conformed and I had no further problems during the four day trip. In June; I had a similar experience prior to approach with an First Officer who would not pull out any publications during the entire flight. Is this a trend and are other Captains having these problems? I'm not back in the Air Force flying a single seat aircraft. This is a dangerous trend of First Officers deliberately being cocky; complacent; and arrogant. I strongly believe flight standards should issue a bulletin to Airbus pilots explaining the seriousness of this matter especially at airports they're familiar with.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	905258
Time
Date	201008
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	ZOA.ARTCC
State Reference	CA
Environment
Flight Conditions	IMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A320
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Cruise
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 90 Flight Crew Total 12228 Flight Crew Type 2710
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

A320 captain believes that some first officers at his company are becoming complacent and are not complying with SOP when it comes to approach briefings.