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Fair enough, I was reacting to the ENOUGH, so his ar$e is removed
I disagree on your statement that his point about awareness is valid.
I didn't know the crew so I don't know how recent their experience was on the 345. It's already been said that being 340 current doesn't mean 345 current. Like many here, I'm wondering how some things happened but I'm not going to say that items should have been noticed because none of us know why they weren't.
According to the initial report, the F/O had 425 hours on the A345. About 70 of that would have been CCQ and the rest could have been doing augment and operating the short NZ sectors. So, worst case, at about 35 hours for the DXB-Oz-NZ-Oz-DXB, that's a whole 10 trips with 20 operating sectors at light weights. Even if half were operating at heavy weights, that's not much to fall back on. Then add 190 hours of A343 ops and the waters get muddier.
Fair winds, H-D