Originally Posted by
threemiles
Litigation - where Boeing will claim that QRHs, NNCs are more a recommendation for great independant airmen
From what I can understand from this thread this is very much not the case as the plane is supposed to be designed for the
average pilot rather than great independant airmen. The key question is what constitutes an average pilot? With the vast ramp up in the amount of planes and pilots flying over the last decade or so I think there's a good argument to be made that currently there's wider range of abilities than previously and hence maybe the threshold needs to be lower than is currently the case. Hopefully at some time in the future as the newer airlines and pilots mature this threshold will rise.
It's worth pointing out US commercial aviation did not suddenly burst into being as is now the case but it evolved. Let's face it surely any "halfwit" would know better than to get near to the plane in front to try to melt the snow on the wings right?