When are Company SOP's Dangerous?
Fellow professionals,
Are we in danger of loosing the plot. I have seen SOP’s develop over the years with the express aim of increasing flight safety. What a laudable aim. After all number one rule in all aviation activities DO NOT HIT GROUND .........that is unintentionally!
However in this increasingly litigious society have some companies lost the plot?
While the aircraft manufacturers are spending considerable sums on human factor research resulting in simplification of procedures , I refer to the latest B737NG checklist. Some operators however have steadily gone the other way. SOP’s for virtually every thing making the silent cockpit quickly a thing of the past. SOP’s so complicated that the only thing that curiously is’nt included is the best and most important
FLY THE BLOODY AEROPLANE Tell me I’m wrong but when does blind adherence to sops in itself ( if those sops are complicated ) become a serious flight safety hazard.
I look forward to your feedback with great interest.
Many thanks
Saddest