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Old 31st Jan 2010, 15:06
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Bluestar51
 
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HKAdaily,

I must disagree about your comment on 'arrogance'. Arrogance is a pre-requisite at CX and we have never killed anyone
There's a fine line between arrogance and confidence. I would like to think a CX pre-requisite is confidence. .

All pilots make mistakes. I have a logbook full of "I ain't never going to do that again." I've seen CX do some things that caused me to pause. Last winter at KJFK I saw one of the CX B777s taxing out for take off with a load of snow on it. Another aircraft and the tower said something to them about it. At first CX ignored the comments (arrogrance ?), then the voice of reason came over the radio (different than the first voice) and said two things "We'd like to return to the gate and thanks to the aircraft that told us about the snow."

This is not a criticism of CX, just a comment. I do a lot of commuting on CX.

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