Originally Posted by
yoko1
[...] but we are procedurally not allowed to do so. Once upon a time, it was allowed at the Captain's discretion, but no longer. A Captain can always take a chance and play the "Captain's Emergency Authority" card and do what he/she thinks is needed to save the ship, but he/she would then be counting on a sympathetic Fed/Supervisor/Chief Pilot to agree with his reasoning at the subsequent hearing.
Let's not forget my "favorite" post hoc judgements: the veiled stabs here on pprune about "They didn't [perfectly] follow the [two or three simultaneous] memory item[s]" or "they did not arrive at step X [hence they did not know what they where doing]", "they did not do step X [so they were fumbling around]"... Instead of asking what prompted them to deviate, or prevented them to do what, in hindsight, is (sooo)⁹ obvious (FlY tHe [PeRfEcTlY FiNe] PlAnE™), while changing the goalpost every time a new bit of information comes out.
Mere [frustrated] SLF here.