Originally Posted by
piratepete
Surely one of the descent/approach/landing checklist items is "altimeters".The fact that this action was missed indicates some kind of serious issue in the cockpit, perhaps stress or fatigue, could be anything.My other observation would be to ask why pilots in this current age are still flying a dive and drive method.
According to the ATSB report, they had completed the Descent Checklist (whcih contains altimeter setting) earlier, and had noted that the altimeter setting was not yet accomplished, as they were still above the rather low transition level ... and then the altimeter setting got forgotten when they did descend through the transition level.