I do, however, certainly agree with you re "Pay-to-fly" type schemes, the products of which then go onto "last resort" type airlines with high pressue ops and dodgey corporate cultures (I wouldn't want to HARP on about this, but an airline FRom Ireland springs to mind!!).
I am also resolved that it will take twisted metal and dead people to get this message across...
Wiz, i'm confused
which part of easy's TRSS or cadet scheme isn't a "Pay-to-fly" type scheme' ? Granted easy may not be as harsh towards its crews as FR, (they still don't give anything away though) but by your definition do you include ej in your last resort type airlines list? If it does happen (and hopefully not to any company) there may be just as much chance of the aircraft having orange writing on it as a golden harp. It comes down to the crews to fly the aircraft in a professional manner inside the limits of the SOP's, regardless of how restrictive they may perceive them to be. It can be confusing though when asked to conserve fuel as much as possible by carrying the min safely required and then being asked to fly a less than fuel conservative approach wrt speeds and throwing the gear out at 2000' agl regardless of the 40 knots on the nose on finals. I can understand where Kap is coming from particularly when you can easily save a couple of hundred kgs in the final stages of an approach, now though companies don't want their crews to use the old grey matter just do what the book says, who are we to argue
