Originally Posted by Barley

All phoenix is saying is that there are better researched, modern, and among other more progressive CIVILIAN carriers widely embraced ways of operating aircraft. F9 has been pretty much running the same checklists and same SOPs for 21 years. Change is hard, but it is necessary. I'm sure phoenix is flying by the book, but there is no harm in him suggesting (and that's all he's doing) his ideas derived from a valuable background on how we might do it better. I am surprised folks are having an issue with this since he's only suggesting ways Frontier may improve. Honestly, I'd love to have more people like him in our flight decks. Independent thinking should not be penalized. The usual drones that just fall asleep nearly every leg and haphazardly run checklists without even looking at it and manage to make a stabilized approach maybe once or twice per 4-day trip kind of wear on me.