Quote from Centaurus:
It is not that modern SOP's have increased standards and safety but more likely the introduction of wonderfully accurate, reliable and sophisticated automatics that have reduced over recent years, the relative risk factor of flying from A to B.
Wrong, wrong! Altough modern cockpit technology have increased the accuracy of flying, it has also increased the the workload in the cockpit. We all remember a few very famous hull losses because of this, e.g. AA 965 in Cali.
Good SOPs take this into consideration and put great emphazise on crew coordination, aka talking with each other.
It's amazing to see that there is such a great number of professional pilots here in pprune and all over the world who still considers the most important progresses in aviation worthless
Go flying L-1011!
Dani