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Old 18th Jan 2004, 02:03
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Wee Weasley Welshman
 
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It'll end in disaster.

You *have* to have had the experience of making your own go no-go decisions and getting it wrong and scaring yourself and Learning About Flying From That.

You simply have to.

I know from my time teaching airline cadets that they exist totally in a world that is heavily cossetted by the Flying Order Book, their Instructor, the Duty Instructor etc etc. They already have far too little exposure to making finely balanced decisions.

Not everything is in the books, found in a checklist or covered by SOP.

You've got to kick people out there at some point in their training - let them be Skipper and send them with aircraft into the blue yonder.

Lets face it the Military - every countries military - do it that way as their primary focus is on quality not cost. I think this proposal is rooted in cost and us such deserves contempt.

This should not stand.

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