Originally Posted by
bradthepilot
I think you miss my point. While someone who operates just inside the tolerances for whatever is certainly adequate and meets the standard, they aren't trying to improve their skills. And that's the point - someone who isn't trying to improve their professional skillset isn't worth hiring if there is someone who *is* constantly trying to improve available. It's not hard to tell the two apart in a 30 minute conversation, LCA or not.
I think you chose a poor example to make your point. Chasing parallax error or Brownian motion does not make you more precise or motivated, it just increases your task loading without benefit, which won’t hurt you usually if everything else is going OK.
Acquiring the skill and knowledge of how to most safely and efficiently manage an aircraft is indeed a laudable goal, but instantly correcting every one degree deviation does not contribute to that - not outside the FAF anyway. There are other places the mental effort to accomplish that degree of attention could and should be better spent.