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Old 11th Sep 2013, 03:45
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serf
 
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Is this not the crux of the problem? Risk management rule #1, accept no unnecessary risk.

4 of the 5 accidents highlighted by DB had weather as a factor. Just because you can fly in crap weather doesn't mean you should; is it appropriate to operate to a deck that only the co-pilot can make the landing? Or fly when TS are forecast because your SOP says the weather forecast is in limits? On the latest accident, where was the alternate if they couldn't get into Sumburgh?

A lot of Swiss cheese holes have already aligned before the pilot presents his own hole to complete the chain. To prevent the accident you must break the chain. The pilot is usually just the last one in the chain.

I was in the military too and, as I recall, the vast majority of flying was overland VFR. On a lot of days I regularly go flying now, I would be sitting in the crew room while I was in the military watching the weather outside.

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