As for all the "what if's," how do you decide which ones to brief?
The critical ones like an EFATO or a Go around where time may be limiting. Asking yourself "what if" is a tool to get you to think about what
might be different today, like perhaps briefing the possibility of a windshear go around if reports have been heard, or the conditions look conducive, and the important differences to a standard go around.
The idea is not to brief every single thing you can think of that may go wrong, it is to highlight the important likely differences. In order to brief them, you need to have thought of them. I have seen it demonstrated a number of times when pilots have not, when they just brief the chart and "read" you what it says then as an example try to do a standard go-around in windshear.....
I think a briefing should not take more than 2-3 minutes and avoid the usual bla bla bla....
Couldn't agree more. Many pilots just say the same old thing without putting any thought into it.
PP