Originally Posted by
ERJ Driver
Naw dude... the point of CRM SOP and any other alphabet soup you can think of is to mitigate mistakes and error chains that lead to accidents. No amount of briefing can excuse violating SOP intentionally. I'd like to fly with that guy too... on a line check.

All I am saying is that if they ARENT going to do standard, I'm not saying it's right, they just need to tell you, hey man, i'm not going to pull you're gear, you do it! That way they aren't figuring this out at 50' while receiving a birdstrike. I'm not saying it's right, but it's less wrong... what do you think?? His time will come to talk to standards...