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should have trained and briefed their pilots properly, and unambiguously
should not have removed the requirement for one person on the flight deck to have flown in Antarctica before.
Was it not the ALPA people who insisted that their senior captains all have a "turn" at this perk flight? Here CAA should have been more insistent that the Company use the experience of the people who had been going down there for many years, and no Captain should have gone down there as PIC until a familiarisation flight had been undertaken, as was a mandatory requirement for all the service aircrew carrying out operations down to the ice.