Originally Posted by
AerocatS2A
Well, as I say, I’ve been sitting next to someone who has done the very same thing. Normally a very good operator, but his brain just did something automatically without thought. The most dangerous thought a pilot can have is that there is a category of errors so fundamentally basic that he could never make one. I have had an FO select flap to zero instead of the gear up. He never thought it would be an error he could possibly make, and yet he made it.
To remove the 'high and mighty' hat for a moment, I have to confess my darkest sins. Which include the fact that I once did exactly the same thing. Therefore, I get where you are coming from. (mea culpa, etc.). No harm done, but I got some choice words aimed at me for that one. Very choice words.