Ok, I'm not a professional pilot - but I was a controller for many years with a similar interest in making sure things happen right.
I think yeoman has summed things up very neatly - rather than saying I would do anything as daft as that we should be looking for the WHY....and then doing whatever we can to fix the underlying causes. It's in everyone's interest!
And one other thing that strikes me is the difference between yeoman's Captain's "I've been flying for 40+ years and I never cease to be amazed at the new ways I still find to
up and the number of scenarios I still see for the first time" and the rather different attitudes expressed by some other ostensibly very experienced posters.
