Originally Posted by
BraceBrace
Somebody who learned to fly on a Cessna and never wanted to learn to fly a swept wing jet with high BPR engines. Those "been doing it all my life like this-ideas" of pilots pop up more often than you think, and it only takes one of them to reach a "higher" position in the ranks to get this result. Nothing new...
Couldn't put it any better. Possibly even management type who gave himself a scare once or just feels more comfortable flying a desk came up with this.
Aeroplanes have been around for nearly 120 years now so we have a fair idea how to operate them. When an operator has some strange procedure out of nowhere it implies that someone in management doesn't.