Originally Posted by radarman
Why has this thread generated three pages of posts? It's all very simple if you forget about the ATC niffnaff and trivia, and get back to basics. As has been said so many times before, it's Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. Communicate is last in the list for a reason. Think about it!
Exactly. Try telling that to the current batch of trainees and newer validations. You can keep saying it until you are blue in the face but it doesn't sink in until you put someone into the pointy end of an aeroplane and let them see for themselves.
The amount of times I cringe on a daily basis at what my colleagues do is increasing rapidly.