Originally Posted by
Timbo
On the whole Briefing idea...shouldn't we all be able to say...Just do what they taught you in training...or not even that, because, what else would you do?
I always fly with the mindset that the guy sitting next to me went through the same upgrade training I did (because...he DID) and he knows what the procedures are, and how to read a checklist, so, why do I have to tell him how to do his job? Until he proves otherwise, I'm going to assume he knows what he's doing. Yet I have to brief "Aborts and abnormals" every time. WHY??
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Because if you don't know your job by now, my briefing you isn't going to help. And if you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong!
Agreed ... but some guy who lives in a cubicle at the FSDO wants to hear the brief, so hear the brief he will.
The way I look at it, the airline bought the airplane and the gas. If they want me to recite the Gettysburg Address before each departure, I will.
While it is my goal to never have one of my CVR tapes transcribed, you start out with money in the bank if all the checklists and procedures were done well (and that part is easy).
However I agree with your point and fly my own airplane the way I want to (The work done by lawyers stays in the pouch).