Bluntly So.
Well said - I agree wholeheartedly. Commonsense airmanship ensures that "resources" are used appropriately. There is no point in looking around the cockpit and saying "thinks - what "resources" haven't I used yet".
One often hears aficionado's of CRM recounting of the bad old days when captains were perceived as stern unbending characters who sought no opinions from their first officers and were therefore a safety hazard.
Well, these characters may well have existed in some airlines, but I must say that after several decades of military and airline flying in Australia, I was fortunate enough never to have run across such types in the cockpit.
Did they really exist in such numbers as to be the catalyst for the beginning of the cottage industry known as CRM? I doubt it, personally. Then who started the CRM bandwagon? Aviation psychologists perhaps?