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Hudson Bay.

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Do as your company SOP's state. Don't think you know any better

I wish I had the touching faith that you display in the veracity of "company procedures". Those procedures should be a reflection of the manufactures's advice and recommendations based on certification test pilot results. Often they are not.

You should know that company procedures are often the result of a chief pilot's personal ideas on the subject. And we all know that chief pilots have very much differering viewpoints and agendas.

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Originally Posted by Centaurus (Post 3020654)

Hudson Bay.

I wish I had the touching faith that you display in the veracity of "company procedures". Those procedures should be a reflection of the manufactures's advice and recommendations based on certification test pilot results. Often they are not.

You should know that company procedures are often the result of a chief pilot's personal ideas on the subject. And we all know that chief pilots have very much differering viewpoints and agendas.

While I share your jaundiced view of many “company procedures”, they should also reflect operating experience – which is something that the manufacturer’s lack. And I suspect that flight test departments are just as fully stocked with differing viewpoints and agendas as your typical airline.