Originally Posted by Clarence
Pointing fingers and calling somebody a cowboy implies that the finger-pointer is not.
Pointing fingers and calling someone a cowboy has surely got us looking in the right direction. The finger-pointer is not a child and is not hiding. I don't know LTD but he self-evidently is alert to big picture hazards,
and he's a caring whistleblower
and he's a good role model. The world needs more of all three types
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This thread ain't about egos, it's about contaminated flying surfaces that probably stayed contaminated till they flew a bit. How much of each we don't know because we didn't deice. All we know is that one was ultimately not catastrophic and the other overcame the first before the runway ran out.
Thesedays I don't want a preponderance of judgement calls on flight decks. I want applied science wherever possible, please ladies and gentlemen!