Rorksmate:
You are right, the 'standard conversation' that gets a newbie hired in the NT was put forward as an insight for the wannabees as to how things work up here. I certainly do not endorse it as a personnel selection procedure!
Hiball:
"When someones down they all pick on him"
You are fooling yourself, sweetie.
There are any number of examples to show that you are talking rubbish. Wheels ups at south goulbourn, fuel exhaustion and landing on highways, all sorts of major stuff ups by NT pilots that blotted otherwise clean report cards.
All of the pilots in these instances copped a few comments, but were not the subject of a discussion like this. The difference being that most of these guys owned up to their stuffups, copped the embarrassment and didn't try to bullsh!t their way out of the whole thing. They might have let it be known that there were contributing factors, but hey, they knew they did it. Hell, it was a ticket to an Ansett interview!
The reason that 'poor HE' is getting such a kicking, is not simply because he is down. In fact, it looks like he is legally almost out of danger.
HE is getting a kicking because there are a few people from the mid to late 90's around that won't let him 're-invent the past.' He and his mates are starting to believe their own bullsh!t.
If he had just sat down and kept his mouth shut, and told his mates to belt up, he would most probably have been left alone. But bleating and crying like a TV evangelist caught in a whorehouse has the long-term Darwinites shaking their heads and saying, predictably -- what a load of sh!t, coming from HE of all people.