justme69,
I concur with your post.
But.... maybe there never should have been a TOWS?
There are a few 'killer' items, and wrong flaps-and-slats settings are one of them. Should those items have become 'routine', because the pilots (maybe subconsciously) 'trusted' the TOWS to alert them to any mistakes and omissions?
Or should the TOWS never have been invented, the "killer items" marked in red in the check-list, and the pilots have it hammered into them, that the red-line items can kill, and have killed before, and if they ignore them, nobody and nothing is looking over their shoulder, and they may be the next on the KIA list....
Does the TOWS give somehow, somewhere a false sense of safety?
CJ