Originally Posted by
pangolin
You people scare me. The captain is looking out the window - ready to land. The fo is TOTALLY on the instruments. It’s hardly an exchange it’s kick off the AP and land. Who’s the better on to land in this situation? If it’s not clear - you scare me.
I struggle with why it is that hard too. I don’t have a problem with the exchange of controls. The new check list should help. My complaint about the callouts is the crew is making too many callouts at a critical phase of flight - just when ATC is calling, particularly during practice CAT II’s when ATC is trying to squeeze in a ton of planes with 3 or 4 miles in trail. I also wonder how many captains practice a CAT II with their FO.
Line check pilots should have the authority to take the crews off the line over a botched CAT II. And, line check pilots should have the same failure rate as the FAA and for the same reasons. If a crew messes up with an FAA observer in the jump seat, they should be pulled off the line. When the pilots see that the company is serious, then they will get serious.