Originally Posted by
Scoop
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
Absolutely. I was arguing his point that it could neither a) happen (having 2 newbies paired up together, and 2) it is (basically) a simple environment in which to operate.
And you are ab-so-lutely correct that complacency is the biggest challenge.