Originally Posted by
ia1166
follow the sop and brief in accordance. Its a standard arrival brief, including the 10-9. A proper arrival brief would have picked it up.
The captain is responsible at all times.
ia1166, you are very correct, the Captain is responsible at all times and all the wisdom to aviation is written in the SOP. Follow it and you'll be safe from troubles. So let's abolish the practice of CRM, let's forget SMS (something your IATA and Skyteam carrier does not even aware exists as this will contradict the punitive culture), let's stop studying human factors (fatigue and risk management) and why worry about threats we face on daily basis ?
Four serious incidents in less than one year (and more that we do not know about ?) can hardly be blamed on not simply following SOP, even though for sure some SOP breach was present at every incident. How about judgement ? Does your SOP have an answer for every unpredictable situation we as professional pilots are trained to deal with ?
It's easy to get on the "follow SOP" blame game, but I think it's time for your company and senior instructors like yourself to stand up and demand a "root cause" study.
Was lack of proper training leading to incidents, lack of proper judgment, lack of support (CRM ?) fatigue, stress or other human factors. A man with your experience knows for sure than one factor does not lead to an incident or accident. The scenarios usually build up by several factors amounting to one bad result.
Just my two cents.