Ah, the "double-briefing"! Talk about desk pilot nonsense.
I'm sooo glad we don't have that crap in our company
I think the issues raised in this thread just about sum up the state of the business today:
Double briefings, timing on visual or circling approach, SOP-nazis and low timers dicking around without proper training or follow-up. It used to be all about knowledge and skill.
No amount of Swiss Cheese or cozy-crm-talk in the classroom is ever gonna prevent an accident. As long as Mr. Reason cannot tell me exactly how to predict where and when that next "hole in the cheese" will appear, I'll just keep doing business as usual.
Recommend Sidney Dekkers excellent books on the subject of so-called human error!
