Ya we had the same form at the flight school I used to teach at. A pretty neat system. THe lower the ceiling and vis, the higher your weather number, the more youve flown that day vs the amount of sleep you had the night before the higher your number. Neat system
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deadstick35
It's mitigating the risk.
I wish I still had a copy of the form, and it's been a few years so I might not get this 100% right. Our unit had a risk assessment matrix that was completed before every flight. Aside from the amount of crew rest, flight conditions, and recency of experience, one of the factors was flight crew experience. All of the factors were scored 1-4 or 5. I think it was like golf: the lower score is better. If the score was too high, you had to get special approval to conduct the flight. That higher authority had to review the details and sign-off on it. It might seem like a paper chase, but it got another set of eyes on the mission. The point is that the experience level of the crew members was a contributing factor to the level of risk.