SOP's
Turtleneck
Unfortunately you are so very right. I have been hit as you say. Perhaps I was lucky to work my way up to large aircraft in a way that I had something to compare SOP's with.
A kid with 250 some hours total time straight out of a school sitting in a large jet has nothing but the SOP's to fall back to. But to follow something mindlessly is just plain simple stupid. Will you jump into a well if I tell you to? I doubt there are many takers.
What strikes me as suprising is the willingness of every new DFO, Chief Pilot or Fleet Captain to try to leave their mark into the paperwork and the first things they attack are cheklists and SOP's. Trying to re-invent the wheel me thinks.
JJ