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Old 24th Aug 2020, 09:45
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Uplinker
 
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@rb14, yes, I know it sounds counterintuitive, but humans need incentives. In the 1970's we should have all worn seatbelts, but we didn't. Now we do, because it became socially unacceptable not to.

Pilots should do everything right, but quite clearly they don't. You could use a stick and prosecute all errors. Or you could use a carrot and reward, or otherwise incentivise safe behaviour.

League tables for fuel is frankly xxxxxx dangerous. I have heard of really stupid and dangerous behaviour, such as one moron who flew back to a partially SNOWTAM ed UK with just 300kg extra fuel..............

So, never for fuel, I agree.

But if we had league tables or part of our pay was, say, £2.50 for every approach we flew that was fully stable at 1000', and a touchdown within the touchdown zone, it might start to change attitudes to risk taking and provide an incentive to encourage safe behaviour; it could work.

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