212Man,
I think I know what you meant by your statement....
Strong SOPs, and crew discipline have to be in place combined with a company culture of expected standards. Do you have a crew that when the "minimums" EGPWS aural warning goes off responds with "200 ft, visual with the runway, landing" every time it goes off, even when its CAVOK and they have seen the runway miles away...
How Strong are the SOP's and how strict the crew discipline before you find yourself with a pair of Tibmin Robots at the helm?
At some point the expensive talking ballast up front may encounter something that does not fit nicely into the checklist and SOP's....then what?
What if the SOP or checklist does not work for all possiblities that might be encountered and thus set you up for a problem such as happened to the DC-10 at Chicago when one of the engines departed the wing on a CAVU day and the crew used the exact specified standard procedure for a single engine failure and Died. Or....like has happened in a 212 Sim at Forth Worth...when the Captain briefed the company procedure for a problem after LDP....carried it out and crashed because the procedure did not consider one of the failures that can occur that does not fit the SOP as written.
I guess the famous Eket Takeoff Brief of "We're outta here!" on takeoff number 63 that day would fall slightly outside those Strong SOP's and Crew Discipline concepts despite the fact both pilots knew exactly what was meant and what was going to happen?