Originally Posted by
LittleMo
Maybe better and safer CRM should have been applied?
'Do you mind if I do my own approach?' - 'Well captain the RVR/wind/etc is xxx and SOP states that we should rather do a monitored'
'YOU'RE' HIGH AND FAST ON A SHORT WET RUNWAY' - ' Speed is Vref plus twenty, slope 1 dot fly down'...'Go Around'
The burst tires and almost over running the runway are as much your fault for not calling the go aroud
Ah, yes, all very well to say sitting quietly on the ground; rather different in the situation.
Suppose ol' skip doesn't go-around: should I fight him for control? Up until then, I hadn't realised that the tvat couldn't fly.
I may say that was a period during which I preferred to fly with check/training captains because I knew they would follow SOPs.
Our company was bending over backwards to accommodate some difficult and barely competent people.*
* If any of you read this, you know who you are and some of you were a dangerous PITA.