Hey FD,
I agree, I think we should all gather around a nice campfire in the desert and sing "Kumbaya". Hey, or maybe "Puff the Magic Dragon". That will always put a smile on a 5 year old's face.
Read the friggin' posts, pal. No one is saying do away with checks and balances, what they are saying is this archaic, bizarre oral exam on a FOM, that is not applied equally across the board, is a bit much. Know how to locate and disseminate the information, not memorize what's on page 14-12 or whatever. If an airline's training program is so lax that after three or so years it is not known whether or not an individual is ready for an upgrade, they have bigger issues in their training than whether or not someone can memorize flight time duty. Discuss something meaningful, like what to do with a Pollyanna first officer that will accept and do whatever some unseen controller will tell him to do, safe or not.
I need to go to the beach....Hey maybe there's a campfire going there. Marshmellows maybe. Oh I can't wait..Maybe singing and dancing on how perfect everything is. I'm losing it.....
