Originally Posted by
ManaAdaSystem
The A320 will happily fly right past TOD and it will not start a descent even if a lower altitude has been set. You need to start the descent yourself. The only trigger you get is a weird «deselerate» message to remind you.
Then the question would become, how did the relatively benign slip-up of flying past TOD rapidly degenerate into a total cluster****? All I read here about penalties for failure to follow SOPs would seem to create perverse incentives following a minor transgression. In other specialities, there is machinery for saying 'I screwed-up, I recognized the screw-up, I took appropriate action' without risking unemployment.