Originally Posted by
Knotcher
Are you serious? There are plenty of incidents and near misses that are quietly disseminated by the safety committee and company that never go public…Other than maybe becoming a cryptic screen saver. We only see a fraction of them in the safety publication they put out every so often. You think it’s all experienced guys making the blunders and the newbie captains are all saints? You think no rookie mistakes are being made… whether it causes an incident or not?
I don’t remember any coming out in the safety publications, but I haven’t checked in awhile.
Think back to your Cessna prop days. The ones that were safest in that tin can were the student pilots and newly minted PPLs. They weren’t complacent, low tolerance for risk, and mitigated threats by being overly cautious. I’d venture to say that the indoc CAs are the same way. This isn’t to say that they are immune to a mess up or a bad day at the office, but probably a lot less of them messing up.
More experienced CAs will push things a bit because they know the plane and the operation. Unfortunately, this only works until it doesn’t.
In any case, strict adherence to SOPs and good decision making will get you from A to B safely. Everyone has passed the training and at this point, passed recurrent. Let’s keep looking out for each other and check the ego at the door