We cannot let an in-depth knowledge of performance
d'accord.
Certainly isn't going a nice way as the bean counters exercise an ever-increasing influence over corporate management decision protocols and the counterproductive pressures on training increase continually.
In the dream time of long ago, pilot standards was the catchcry and woe be to any who dragged the chain too much .. nowadays ?
I was fortunate in that my first operator put great emphasis on over-training pilots and accepted the associated dollars as a cost of doing business. A client airline for which I provided ops eng and other services for many years, in similar vein, put yet even more emphasis on pilot initial and recurrent training.
I think, on the balance of probabilities, I would prefer to take my chances, in extremis, with one of the earlier style of folk at the helm on a dark and dirty night ...
Like many, I think it will take considerably more blood on the ground before there is a general management and regulatory level awakening to the underlying problems.
RAT 5, d'accord.