Originally Posted by plt_aeroeng
Companies today are run by the marketeers. The pilots and engineers left after the cuts of the late '90s don't have the ear of management, perhaps partly because of lesser experience, perhaps partly because no one wants a realist (dour pessimist in a marketeers lexicon) to dampen the rosy predictions.
How true this is!!
When did any of us look at an amber caption (through rose tinted helmet visor) and say - oh, I am sure it will be OK, let's ignore it. Thankfully we ARE trained to be dour pessimists!
It is a shame this is only recognized as an attribute in the cockpit!