John, I think that is when a captain has to be a captain as we all should to make a safe departure. We need to operate safely no matter what our company ops are.
Have you notified your airline about the idea of flying visually if in VMC?
Probably not.
Sometimes pilots can do things better using their judgement than reading an ops manual at the end of the runway. We need to heed it but we also need to use common sense and what is happening at the moment. We are paid to take care of things and given a manual to assist us but not handicap us.
SOPs,EOI are written in a comfortable office by professionals who most probably have a better clue than you think you do.
This is reason why they are writing these SOP manuals and designing these procedures in the first place.
25 yrs of doing this with no violations, write ups by anybody and no scraped metal worked for me
Typical.
However a good CRM topic for recruitment of first officers..