Mangatete just for the sake of accuracy the "Don't Sink Don't Sink" warning can be triggered without sinking. A reduction in climb rate towards zero will do it on some occasions. It is not that unusual to get it in a low altitude level off.
Pakeha Boy and MattyJ Captain Juian is the NZALPA Technical Director and a previous Regional Vice President of IFALPA. I am aware that he testified at the Palmerston North Dash 8 case... not sure about the other one.
There are some concerning issues being raised in evidence presented by CAA.
Mark Hughes said that pilots cannot override reported weather from ATC. That is incorrectinmy view. Every company I have worked for has encouraged pilots to use their own judgement of visibility etc from the takeoff point. It is a completely different perspective to that of ATC.
Last edited by BGQ; 15th Jul 2012 at 15:33.