Originally Posted by
LivingTheDream
Seriously? I certainly believe in double checking each other, but this "getting permission" to execute everything is getting ridiculous. With 20-30 years + of experience for each of us, I expect each of us to have "graduate level" flying abilities. (Although I fully realize this "std text/sopa/smac" philosophy is rapidly coming to a theatre near you... Yay!
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I guess I'm a bit of a dinosaur... retirement can't come soon enough.
BTW, my brief into the ATL on a Cavu day is: "Std vmc brief. Any questions?" (How many bazillion times has an ATL pilot flown into ATL? I really don't think I need any more brief than this to be safe. YMMV.)
It wasn't a permissions issue, it was communicating.
And I've seen the crustiest of the crusties try and build that RNAV visual into the most CAVU day in ATL despite my attempts to persuade him otherwise. Phone call to ATC followed the landing.
Also, our pilot corps is quickly being filled with many without fms experience. So a little extra communications should not be frowned upon. JMO.
R/
FTS