[QUOTE=das Uber Soldat;10518997]This thread is doing my head in.
If your answer is 'Captains discretion", I put it to you that every Captain who drove an aircraft into the ground despite his FO's pleas believed that his discretion was more accurate than whatever the FO saw on the day.[/QUOTE
Yeah, me too-and I’ve got a pretty big head.
The crux of the matter is that perceptions are very fallible. Even a shiny gold PIC stripe doesn’t improve your reliability on that score. All of life’s problems in fact begin with a faulty or incomplete model and deteriorate from there.
I have had the good fortune to operate in a crew environment with pilots both plain and fancy for a long time. Every time I go to work I’m confident that we all have the same goal and same serious focus on performing to a high standard. I rely on my other crew members as they do on me. If one of us is unhappy then it gets fixed in a timely fashion. Close to the ground then it’s TOGA first, questions later. It says so right here in my 1984 copy of “So you've got a fourth stripe!”
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