well, well - people who worry about too extensive SOPs are sometimes those who don't want to follow them...
Let me assure you that modern SOPs have increased aviation standards and safety tremendiously. Most modern aircraft like Airbus are simply not flyable without very strict SOPs.
And experience show that as soon as you stop calling out those FMA modes, at least some of your pilots corps stop looking at them. Give me an autoland session with random failures around minimum and I prove it to you right on the spot.
This discussion reminds of similar people talking about CRM (the CRM where you talk about non-aviation related factors). Incidently, most of the pilots who don't like CRM workshops are the same group that doesn't like modern SOPs or miss the "old flying" in general.
Learn to adapt to modern cockpit cultur - times of "fly more" have definetly passed.
Dani
[edit: phrazed more clearly]
Last edited by Dani; 9th September 2008 at 14:43.