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Old 23rd Nov 2018, 06:48
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Tees - Yes,

Ignoring simple checks is a really good way to land with the gear up or make a similar human error.

They can disable the Aural Warning Generator which removes the 150' call just the same as we often select the TAWS into Low Alt mode to inhibit warnings but when all of that stuff is on te aircraft to stop one making a c*ck of onesself then you might at least make a visual and verbal check.

Plenty of ways to skin a cat? Sure but those two were not displaying anything most people would recognise as CRM and when suddenly faced with something unusual, as this crew were, you would think some sort of self preservation would get you to do a decent recce of an unfamiliar LS instead of going for the 'suck it and see' variety.

Sheer luck prevented an accident at that first LS.

I don't mean to vilify the crew but the comments about 'heroes' and 'great CRM' were completely unjustified and I wouldn't want. less experienced pilots to hold this up as an example of 'how to do it'.
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