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Old 14th Jun 2020, 07:38
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Well that pilot certainly won't be doing it again will he?

My point is that some pilots will push marginal conditions with a set of rose tinted glasses on when the weather is on the limits. Move the limits up so it is a more clear-cut out of limits decision and any pushing of those limits becomes slightly safer.

I know this doesn't account for the ones who will launch in below limits conditions and press on once airborne as it gets worse but it might save a few lives.

Other options include mandatory IFR capability for passenger flights, mandatory real IMC experience and recency, reporting of operators launching in marginal or below limits conditions by ATC - none of which are likely to be acceptable.

Or we can sit and do nothing except whinge about stupid pilots and poor decision making - years of highlighting the problems and trying to educate pilots clearly hasn't worked so what is the solution?

Unless you can find some way of decoupling the commercial pressure from the go/no-go/land decision it's just going to keep on happening.
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