Outstanding post Sir/Madam. If I may be so bold my experience in Medicine (in the operating theatre for the most part) and study of analogous situations in the cockpit have shown that the safest routines are those which are repeated most of the time: an experienced, mature crew doing a standard route or procedure over and over again. Throw a trainee or re-cert into the mix (especially if it is a relatively rare experience, e.g. in private practice or PPL experiences) then sometimes we all can get too pedantic or enthusiastic about a minor teaching point whilst the airspeed dramatically declines as the academic points are rammed home to the trainee. Chaos then ensues. I suspect that the CVR and perhaps a recreation will bear this out. Thanks for listening...my profeesion (anesthesiology) has learned a lot from the study of CRM and cockpit discipline in general and accident or mishap reviews in particular.
