So how do you explain:
Indeed. Just goes to show that despite a couple of decades of ‘reform’ and ‘simplification’, fundamental rules that have been in place for half a century (with a slight hiccup from quandrantal to hemisphical in Australia) seem to escape some of the people produced by this wonderfully ‘safe’ ‘system’.
and
A while ago I was shooting the breeze with a private pilot who was scratching his head about an interaction he’d had in the air with a QantasLink pilot about the ‘transition layer’. I had to explain what the transition layer is and why he wasn’t supposed to have cruised in it...
I don’t think it’s about the absence of briefing offices, CM. I think it’s more about the slow mediocritization of the instructing system.
With those around since the 60's, I suggest the latter re the state of the instructing system is a pretty widespread view.