Humour me for a short epistle, please?
In your mind, picture the Big Cheese "Beancounter".
Now this scenario was on the T/O run, but for this excercise, imagine it happening on the DA. Bad stuff weather.
Your children are on board, both of them, as UMs.(You're subsequently sterile.<not imp.....)
The Captain happened to be suddenly taken with a SERIOUS eye problem/ gut problem/tooth problem, whatever~ but he/she is effectively INCAPACITATED!
Now you have the FO alone flying. Then this happens, at DA, no visual clues. Go around......
Now the question. How do you feel, standing in the terminal waiting for your children to arrive, with all the others, knowing that the FO is a 250/300 hour "cheap salary pilot"? A little-experienced pilot, flying 121 sheduled pax.
I for one find it tantamount to criminal thinking, not "Business".
Sorry, I still believe there are just too many 1000+hour pilots out there giving instruction etc for the industry to morally motivate taking such low time pilots!
Let's learn from this great lesson that's just happened?
Congrats to the wonderful job done by these pilots.
Maybe they'll publish their experience themselves here?
