Originally Posted by
tsquare
That's not exactly true. You are right though that it isn't rocket surgery, but those procedures and requirements have changed dramatically since I was an FO back in the stone age. Your perspective is that of someone that is doing it with regularity. Apparently you forgot about the first time you did it.
And I would say that a domestic transcon is much easier.
All of our flying has certain unique challenges, whether it is domestically flying a circling approach to an airport with the tower closed or trying to decipher a thick French accent rattling off unfamiliar navaids for the first time.
Normally all of these challenges are successfully met, but any can be royally screwed up, at any time, by any of us. In my humble opinion complacency is probably our biggest challenge and unfortunately that affects all fleets equally.
Just as easy for a domestic 737 crew to screw up a SAN departure as two 7ER new hires to cause an unnecesarry track divert. DAL guys have done both in recent times.
Scoop
