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Old 7th Feb 2011, 13:18
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All it boils down to, after 139 pages, is that you are the driver, you make the difference - nobody else. Don't blame the autopilot or -throttle, the ramp guy waving into a too narrow parking spot or whatever. It's you - you get paid for monitoring what your airplane is doing. No minor component failure should bring you down, in theory.

And it's also important how you deal with human errors, because: they will happen again. Even to 'hocams'.

I once met a chief surgeon who was said to have been responsible for the death of a patient because he removed the wrong (= good) kidney instead of the right (= bad) one... He wasn't proud about it, but he never made a secret about it either and let others learn a lesson from his screw-up. I take my hat off for this way of dealing with a terrible failure.
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