Originally Posted by
Xray678
to add on to that, if the captain can't notice that the flaps are not set before taking off......checklist or not, then he/she is an incompetent fool who should not be in a control seat at a major airline.
Nobody is talking about not noticing before taking off. We're just talking about throwing away the
initial line of defense by making the activation of this system a silent item. When in
all other regimes of flight, this system's activation is by command. Makes no sense.
Originally Posted by
Xray678
All the standard SOPA/SMAC procedures in the world will not cover up for a weak pilot. Bad pilots will make mistakes no matter how standard your procedures are.
Standardization makes all crews better. Weak and strong. The opposite view of your argument is the following: the strongest pilots in the world will not perform to their best
as a crew, if they are not standardized.
Originally Posted by
Xray678
Procedures should allow for some flexibility. If you need a bunch of overly rigid procedures to protect your ass, you are in the wrong business.
Again, the characterization of our SOPA/SMAC as rigid is made out of pure ignorance. If you had flown it, you would know. You probably shouldn't continue to reference the term rigid just because another poster here called it rigid. A poster who also never flew it.
Carl