737 Driver, #4683
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You can't fix a problem until you recognize a problem exists. I humbly suggest that we collectively recognize the crew competency issues within our own ranks and devote our brain cells to addressing that problem rather than lobbing largely ineffectual grenades over the fence.’
You can be as humble as you like, but if the problem is within human thought, that there is a limit to human performance, then the competency issue resides with our (your) thoughts -
Ethiopian airliner down in Africa
Hopefully you accept that there is a limit; then how is this defined, by whom. Can you enlighten us, where is the evidence of crew competency problems, particularly relating to these accidents.
Or do you use outcome - an accident, to judge competency after the fact.
How might we judge the competency of designers, regulators. With hindsight all appear deficient, but in reality everyone working as best they could, in the conditions they faced; how might they describe their conditions of work and change them.
What the industry requires is the wisdom to foresee how crews will react in extreme, rare, surprising, and life threading situations; without such vision, then crews require help in avoiding these extremes, avoid the situation, change the overall operating environment - change the aircraft system.
Heed the words of James Reason; “
it’s very difficult to change the human condition, but you can change the conditions of work”.