Originally Posted by
73qanda
Thats great Ferry pilot, I’m in the same boat. That doesn’t change my point though, things are different now and there are always going to be pilots who have a different attitude to you or me so we need to look at the way we train, recruit, and disseminate information to mitigate against the pilot who doesn’t research and study like you do, the pilot who was on annual leave for three weeks and then didn’t read all the memos because he or she knows that most are garbage and nobody is watching anyway.
Also, time was when the piloting profession would commonly, and indeed was even expected to, hav their own thoughts and deep interest like this. Now it's not only dumbed down but all about just about compliance, fuel consumption league tables,and following what someone else has written down in SOPs. If they haven't envisaged it there, hey ho ...