"Hardly worthy of a response but yet I must.
By your way of thinking, pilots should be perfect, every time, all the time. As has been proven time and again, they aren't. They are human, fallible and flawed. If they weren't, systems like EGPWS, TCAS, configuration warnings, stick shakers and many, many others would not be needed. Neither would regulations - we'd only need one - thou shalt not crash.
You must be a great deal of fun to fly with - being so perfect and all."
Obviously my CRM must be bad, because I never seem to be able to get my point across here.
No, we're not all perfect. I'm far from perfect, which is why I give so much credit to the right seat.
My whole point is that nobody is perfect, so to expect your steed to be delivered from engineering with the config perfect is as dumb as hell.
Just don't get some of you people. Nobody is perfect, that's my basic point. I'm sure as hell not, but nor is anyone else, that's why I take it as basic fact that I will need always to carry out standard checks.
Not bloody hard, is it?