COMMAND AUTHORITY USED IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL AVIATION REG.

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*RPTR HAD BEEN BUMPED BACK TO F/O AND VERY JUNIOR AS THE RESULT OF A MERGER. HE IS MAKING EVERY ATTEMPT TO ACCEPT THE DEMOTION AND BE THE BEST F/O POSSIBLE. WAS FLYING WITH A FORMER COMPANY CAPT WHO WAS SENIOR AND WAS CONTINUING TO FLY THE LEFT SEAT. THREE INCIDENTS OF COMMAND AUTHORITY AND QUESTIONABLE JUDGEMENT CAME TO LIGHT ON THIS SEGMENT OF TRIPS. GROSS WT INFO WAS NOT IN THE S/O FLT MANUAL AND AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO GET A COPY FROM DISPATCH. CGP WERE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE REQUIRED INFO AND IT COULD NOT BE LOCATED. THE CAPT CALLED TO RETURN TO THE ACFT AS THEY HAD THE PROB SOLVED. DURING THE TAXIOUT THE CAPT ADVISED HE WAS USING WT INFO FROM A SIMILAR ARPT AND ELEVATION. SECOND INCIDENT INVOLVED LNDG MINIMUMS WITH THE TYPE OF FLT DIRECTOR ON THE ACFT. AT THE TIME OF THE MERGER THE FAA MANDATED THAT IF THE FLT CREW HAD NOT RECEIVED TRNING ON THE FLT DIRECTOR IN USE; THE MINIMUMS WOULD HAVE TO BE 4000 AND 3/4. F/O HAD BEEN CHKED ON DIFFERENT TYPE FLT DIRECTOR AND FELT HE WAS NOT QUALIFIED. CAPT ELECTED TO MAKE THE APCH ANYWAY. THIRD INCIDENT INVOLVED PROCEEDING TO AN ARPT BELOW MINIMUMS AT TIME OF DEP AND FORECASTED TO REMAIN. CAPT ADVISED IF THEY DELAYED UNTIL THE NEW FORECAST CAME OUT; WHICH CALLED FOR ABOVE MINIMUM CONDITIONS; THEY WOULD BE LEGAL TO GO. ELECTED TO DEPART AND AT BEST COMPLETED THE APCH BELOW MINIMUMS. RPTR FINDS IT VERY DIFFICULT TO BE A GOOD F/O UNDER THESE CONDITIONS EVEN THOUGHT HE FELT NOTHING WAS LIFE THREATENING. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING: GAVE INFO AS TO TYPE ACFT INVOLVED. FEELS THE GND PERSONNEL ARE VERY LIMITED IN TRNING AND IN GENERAL VERY LAX. FINDS IT VERY DIFFICULT TO OPERATE UNDER THE CONDITIONS HE NOW FINDS HIMSELF. AT NO TIME DID THE CAPT EXPLAIN HIS DECISIONS OR APOLOGIZE FOR HIS ACTIONS. THE FINAL APCH ENDED UP BEING MADE W/O THE REQUIRED CALLOUTS ON FINAL AND THE ACFT DSNDED 100' BELOW MINIMUMS WITH NO COMMENT FROM THE CAPT.