EK - Not allowed to practice NPA's.. now the procedure trainer off limits!!

[mini cooper]

OK enough of the NPA thing!! I think one of the larger problems is that self confidence is something that EK doesn't encourage. If you are confident in your own ability, your own actions and your own ability at work then life looks a lot better. It all goes together, we all know and can see those people who put in ASRs for little or no reason to cover there own backs when really it isn't required, the people who are afraid to put on extra fuel when it really would be sensible just in case they get a call from the fleet office, the people who do not reduce fuel if ZFW drops because they aren't confident enough even though it is cavok, they always get the level required and there are never any delays at the destination!!! Those are the people that Ek management like because they are unlikely to stand up for themselves and hence are easily persuaded to fly when fatigued and not report it, they will ring up for work on days off just to brown nose and are in general pathetic.
The moment we get away from the EK managment DIVIDE and CONQUER technique then I for one will be a lot happier. When they begin to treat us like adults rather than talking down to us, when they support rather than punish then we may begin to act as a team. They then may have more confidence in us and then they may say 'hey guys practice NPAs in good vmc, because its safer' then we might have more respect for them and they for us rather than just stopping all practice NPAs...........................
IT IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE
(unless of course you are EK Flt ops managment and I say 'management' very losely - they couldn't organise a p*ss up in a brewery - because NOBODY WOULD WANT TO GO AND HAVE A BEER WITH THEM)

Farty Flaps: 'nobody took it personally - do you really think after all your good SOP / training talk that it was sensible for EK to say no practice NPAs but by the way chaps if you have to do an NPA for real in the dark in Northern Pakistan with high ground around and in grotty weather its all right!!!!! All you 'trainers' ought to get your heads out of the books, get on the line a bit more and see what everyone has to do before doing the usual 'it says here in the FOM' answer.
ITS CALLED BIG PICTURE!!!