Originally Posted by
pineteam
... You wanna be a monkey and follow blindly some counter productive rule who has be proven to be unsafe then be my guest but don’t tell me how to do my job. So far I have a clean record so I guess I’m not doing so bad. And it’s always in agreement with the rest of the crew otherwise I would have been reported. ... Open your eyes man. ...
Ah, so if everyone is agreeable, SOP can be violated, what a f-up cockpit you run.
The earth is littered with broken bodies and broken airplanes flown by pilots who thought SOP did not apply to them. Pilots who thought they were smarter than the engineers who designed the airplanes, smarter than the training folks who wrote the manuals, and smarter than the regulatory authorities. Pilots who, in your case, had a vote on which SOP will apply to each flight.
Your ‘clean record’ is an accident waiting to happen.