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Originally Posted by WhiskeyKilo
Now, if what the CA is doing won't get me killed or violated then I am inclined not to care. My job description does not say SOP COP.
Well, it kind of does. The 2 pilots are a crew, and if one isn't following SOP then the crew isn't following SOP. By joining a crew, we buy in to responsibility for the other member. Obviously more so for the CA, but it goes both ways.
Now I get it, you've gotta pick your battles because you can't bog down the whole fight in minutiae like the order of the HAA briefing.
But every time I hear something like "won't get me killed," it immediately makes me think that the speaker's threshold of acceptability is too low. After all the whole purpose of SOP's is to avoid getting killed to begin with, and it's not up to us to determine that a SOP is too conservative and ignore it. They're
supposed to be more conservative than the bare threshold of safety and allow a margin.
Everybody ever who got themselves killed due to SOP non-compliance of course didn't think they were gonna get themselves killed, and that the SOP in question was inconsequential queep. Therefore there's a mismatch between their evaluation of the necessity of that SOP, and the reality.
How do we know we're not making the same mistake?