ironbutt57
chances are you and I have been around the block about the same amount of time.
many people/flight crews, lose all instrument discipline when they look out the window and see A RUNWAY.
it isn't so much when things are to minimums, its the place in between beautiful DAY VMC and absolute to the mins approaches. It is the inbetween place at twilight, night, or when the weather is below 1000/3 but above minimums.
it causes pilots to go and land at the wrong airfield. or, as you said, when both everyone is looking at one thing, everything else goes to hell.
can I say hell?
Remember the everglades L1011, everyone started looking at the landing gear lights, not altimeter and everything else.
IF the copilot had stayed, "INSIDE" she would have noticed the high rate of descent and said something. A visual approach with a sink rate of 1500fpm is worth a HUMAN warning.
that's the name of that tune.
And to all you old captains who said: shut up, I've got the runway.
YOU ARE WRONG.
Callouts must be made, good or bad, in sight or not.