Given exactly the same circumstances as Collins, how many pilots would do what he did?
Obviously we can only guess. What do you reckon, Brian?
Obviously a question we can but ponder
Ornis. SOPs are SOPs, and nearly all flights operated without regard to SOPs for the descent. The argument that it was "gin clear" does not hold water, for then, how less than "gin clear" do you then adopt SOPs.
It would seem ANZ was imbued with a "get the job done" ethos, and remember that NZers have been at the forefront in their history for innovation. A rightly proud nation with credits in many fields. But when "getting the job done" is a feature of corporate culture it can be a slippery slope. Read up on Prof. Diane Vaughan and her "normalisation of deviance". The failure of previous flights to comply with SOPs was very much a "normalisation of deviance". And everyone new of the deviance, for it was made a feature in the airlines advertising.
My own experience, is that where "normalisation of deviance" is a corporate feature, new comers wonder what in the world is going on at first, but readily adopt the culture. A Pprune poster,
Sunfish, knows full well the company of which I speak, and is one of the few who saw the light and said it was not for him.