What's worse?
02-13-2020, 07:39 AM
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Rather than rush to judgement I would need more information to answer the question.
For example most manuals have verbage that allows a captain to deviate from procedure for unusual circumstances. This is separate from emergency authority.
So a pilot may brief a deviation of some sort due to unique ramp conditions, etc. That's okay, and, in fact is not a deviation from standards.
Skipping certain elements for convenience is intentional noncompliance.
What happened?
For example most manuals have verbage that allows a captain to deviate from procedure for unusual circumstances. This is separate from emergency authority.
So a pilot may brief a deviation of some sort due to unique ramp conditions, etc. That's okay, and, in fact is not a deviation from standards.
Skipping certain elements for convenience is intentional noncompliance.
What happened?
02-13-2020, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by rabsing76
What's worse and why? A guy who doesn't follow certain SOP out of ignorance, or a guy who knows the SOP but picks and chooses what they follow?
02-13-2020, 09:38 AM
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In the military this philosophy served me well....
If you don't know the rules/SOP, you're incompetent.
If you follow them rigidly, you're uninspired.
A flexible and inspired combat leader knows the rules as a baseline from which to deviate as needed to accomplish the goal (peacetime = safety, wartime = victory).
In civilian aviation our goal is safety, and the rules cannot (nor do they pretend) to address all possible situations. But you should follow them unless you have a good reason not to. That keeps you out of regulatory trouble, and also it's possible that there might be a good reason for a rule that you're not aware of.
If you don't know the rules/SOP, you're incompetent.
If you follow them rigidly, you're uninspired.
A flexible and inspired combat leader knows the rules as a baseline from which to deviate as needed to accomplish the goal (peacetime = safety, wartime = victory).
In civilian aviation our goal is safety, and the rules cannot (nor do they pretend) to address all possible situations. But you should follow them unless you have a good reason not to. That keeps you out of regulatory trouble, and also it's possible that there might be a good reason for a rule that you're not aware of.
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