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Old 5th November 2025 | 00:34
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Our SOP was then changed to be in any order but one plane at a time. Most pilots continued to use the original sequence, but I didn't. On more than one occasion, the PM would say "full left" when I was holding full right for example. I would hold my side-stick where it was and ask "are you sure ?", at which they would look again and then get the correct answer. This proved our concerns about the dangers of always following the same sequence.
This exposes a more fundamental issue of someone saying the words without doing the check and can easily happen with all checks. Randomising the control check helps in that particular case but that same person will make the same mistake in other contexts because they've got poor procedural discipline.
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