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Old 25th Mar 2013, 22:39
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tommoutrie
 
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this is like Top Gun. Have we worked out who the best pilot is yet? Ice Man from the Airlines or Maverick from the Biz Jets?

crashing planes is down to CRM, poor airmanship, inexperience, complacence, overbearing management, and loads of other things that we all know about but I doubt its ever because of a poor checklist. I fly with a manufacturers checklist because we choose to minimise the retraining element of an OPC by making the SOP's exactly what the manufacturer says they should be. There's a bunch of changes that we could make to what Bombardier say that may make things easier or safer but nothing thats in the checklist stops us from exercising the best airmanship that we are able to and that is our best protection against incidents and accidents. And should there be an incident of any kind, doing what the manufacturer says is pretty iron clad when you go to court.
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