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Old 31st Jan 2007, 09:39
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The camerarderie bred during the war years was largely a result of "Flying Together and Dying Together" safety was a secondary issue to getting the job done.... hardly the case in todays flying environment at least outside of the military.

Good CRM has to be based on mutual respect in the cockpit... respect comes with experience and as this report suggests the very correct protestations made by the inexperienced P2 were largely ignored by the Capt while under pressure....

Ryanair would appear to have a high turnover of flightcrew... it may be worth investigating the level of experience of their pilots compared to other companies and maybe even look again at the effects of multi-sector short haul operations over extended periods. One would expect that LCC's such as RyanAir would have more reportable incidents simply because of the many sectors that are flown each day..... we now have the least experienced crews flying the more demanding schedules.
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