Originally Posted by
CaptainMongo
SOP, rules, and regulations have made commercial aviation the success it currently is. To argue otherwise, to argue SOP are only for the NOOBs is BS. 81 percent of incidents between 1979 and 1994 had the Captain as PF. A statistic which should make thinking men think.
We have over 13,000 pilots at my carrier. There are over 2000 pilots on my fleet alone. Without SOP we would have 2000 independent operators.
I shake my head when I read stuff I have seen on this thread. Don't like your SOP, get it changed. Intentional SOP non compliance? There is a litany accidents attributed to that. A pilot killing him or herself because he or she is so stupid to think they know better than everyone else and intentionally violate SOP is unfortunate.
What pisses me off to high heaven is when they kill their passengers in the process of being so incredibly stupid.
I haven't read where anybody suggested breaking SOP.
At my airline we only fly A320s. Our SOP says to insert an "appropriate" number in the appropriate minimums field. On a visual that would mean leaving it blank. I fly with plenty of guys who put the ils mins there, which is "inappropriate" because we are not flying an ils.
And I hate the extra auto call outs. I don't need the airplane shouting things right before I land when I'd rather not miss ATC clearing an airplane to take off on an intersecting runway.