Originally Posted by
LEGAL TENDER
HD your analogies are completely out of context.
To compare the actions of the JKF ATCO to those of a surgeon who lets his son operate... It's like implying that the JFK child was operating unsupervised making his own decisions.
It is precisely like the surgeon handing the kid the scalpel and saying "cut here, this long this deep". The surgeon is making the decision and supervising and standing ready to attempt to patch things up when the kid nicks a major artery.
I still don't want to be the patient, and yes I would expect the surgeon to be struck off.
If you really want to draw an analogy, you could maybe say that the surgeon's child was passing the tools to his father, who would then operate. Slightly different isn't it?
Different (see above), but I still wouldn't expect it to happen.
Every training/mentoring/instructing session is a potential risk. That's why there are specific instructor ratings.
And sims. And medical training for years before you get anywhere near cutting into living breathing humans, even under instruction.
KLM: "we're now at takeoff"
Tower: "ok"
What could possibly go wrong...