Sheppey, I think you've missed the point. I'm not saying we talk about every possible threat. As you have shown you could get out of control and brief for every possible scenario if you wanted too. When I referred to tiredness and turbulence it was in relation to this report. Obviously, fatigue and turbulence were a factor in this incident so perhaps the crew could of identified these threats in their brief and taken actions to lesson the risk.
If you approach an aerodrome with thunderstorms in the area do you brief on the possibility of microbursts and what actions you'd take if windshear is experienced? I would. But I wouldn't if their were no thunderstorms.
When I talk about Crew Capabilities I refer to things like experience and recency. But only if they are significant issues. More often than not they aren't spoken about. Say your flying with a brand new FO who hasn't been into that Airport at that time of year with those conditions, I would confirm they're happy to do the approach etc etc
It really comes down to professionalism and airmanship. Talk about the pertinent points and take actions to lesson the chance of ending up the subject of a PPrune topic.
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