Originally Posted by
Nada Surf
Sorry but you can't take Sulley out of the picture. Sulley is not special, and dosen't represent just one person but tens of thousands of Major Airline Pilots with equal number of hours and experience who would have exhibited the same professional demeanor and calm to produce the best possible outcome. Sulley just drew the straw.
Cheers
I think a lot of it has to do with training. Who do you think has the better training, the regionals or the majors? Maybe this crew could of been a bit more professional but I think their shortcomings were more a result of insufficient training. Also as to your attitude that this could NEVER happen to you, this sounds like a very unhealthy attitude to take in aviation. Once one begins to take on this attitude one begins to feel infallible. Yes, this might never happen to you but one of a million different things might happen that end up putting you in a similar predicament. A more healthy atttude might be this could happen to me so I am going to do everything in my power to make sure it doesn't.