One of the lesser-known perks of being the Captain? You get to choose which sector you fly—and, more importantly, who gets drenched during the walk-round when it’s absolutely chucking it down. Of course, there’s no official policy about this. Nothing in the manuals, no flowchart in the FCOM. But ask any airline pilot and they’ll tell you: when there’s two three- or four-pilot flights and the rain is horizontal, there’s a mysterious gravitational pull that draws the most junior pilot toward the a