Originally Posted by
word302
I give up. I know, if anyone questions your airline's procedures, they must be trolling. The point wasn't whether or not it was in your GOM, but why. The answers I got were ridiculous. I was honestly trying to glean why we as an industry are moving away from putting an importance on piloting skill in favor of systems management skills. It's not just a Mesa problem. It's becoming an industry problem. I apologize for the rag on your training department. That's not the direction I intended to head.
You're forgetting a very important aspect of today flying environment: Lawsuits.
Make no mistake - these kind of SOP's are the airline's way of covering their backside. I can't say that I blame them when you've got guys who are being upgraded to CA's that wouldn't meet competitive regional FO minimums 10-15 years ago.