Mensaboy - the JNB incident was because the captain derotated the aircraft trying to maintain the 'german cross' at 9 degrees. It may have been bad gen from a TRI or TRE or LTC but since when do you derotate a large, heavy bird at take-off?????
I personally have no problem with flying MFF - in fact I haven't flown 343 for 4 months but would be more than happy to jump in one tomorrow. Some of you guys try to turn a simple job into rocket science and want to get your astronaut wings issued too
I also know very few guys that have gone out of recency. It has happened but is not that common.... And I think the responsibility of maintaining currency is up to you the pilot, so if you mensaboy are going out of currency on 330 or 340 then I have no sympathy if you then have to go sim
Kenny - good post. I don't think the 2 guys were ignoring SOP but for both to miss the figures is somewhat startling.. I'm sure the loadsheet wasn't 130 tonnes out was it?