Hughesey, you're absolutely correct.
Much like driving tests, public awareness programmes, speed awareness courses, etc, you can tell people all the relevant information you like, but some will still drive without a seatbelt, with children on peoples laps, while texting, be 'hands-on' the phone, doing make up, undertaking, racing etc etc. things they know they shouldn't do, but still do.
How many incidents talked about on the rotorhead forums have been weather related for example? Much to your dissapointment, IMHO a greater awareness of CRM may well reduce these incidents.
Met is a subject that is part of the syllabus, so the problem isn't not knowing what the weather is doing or more importantly going to do, the problem is recognising that there is a point at which you should just not launch despite it being 8/8 blue at the departure point!
However, despite Met being taught on the course, some will still launch because the weather is nice where they are and they are prepared to take a chance on how things pan out later on in the flight. (Much like this threads incident!) How difficult is it to say to a friend/pax/business that you cant complete the flight, when the departure point and arrival points are in clear weather, yet in between it's cack?
Perhaps attending a CRM course will give the confidence to actually say 'No' when it is needed. You may well get it wrong a couple of times in your flying 'career', but better to get it wrong a few times and end up driving when you could have flown, than to get it wrong just that once, when you flew when you should have driven.
You will not prevent some from pushing on despite them seeing the slices lining up, but even in those cases they know what they are doing and just hope that the last slice doesn't complete the line-up....only in the very last 10 seconds do they realise their mistake.
Unfortunately, it's the ones that don't even know about the slices in the first place that ultimately end up in a report.
If you were Fred Cross chief helicopter examiner with a free hand with EASA what would you change ?
Having attended a 'Speed Awareness Course', I would like to see a 10 yearly attendance for all drivers. This would coincide with renewing your license. However we all know that won't go down too well, not just because of a cost, but everyone is such a good driver!
To do a similar thing in the private flying world, with a SP CRM course every 5/10 yrs for example, will see us ending up with the most active thread PPRuNe has ever seen!