Hamid, my friend,
Your suggestion that my post suggests we
don’t criticize anyone who makes mistakes clearly demonstrates that we
can read what we want into almost anything.
A cursory analysis of anything I have
written is all that is needed to show that it is how criticism is handled by
the critic. I did not, nor would I logically suggest, no one should be criticized.
I don’t think your attempt to relate
as comparative Columbine type characterizations is relevant. (Yes, we do know
about events other than in our own country).
What is relevant is the supervisory system
which should be in place to determine those who appear marginal, and
assessments made on how to properly deal with these people.
Now, I don’t know if you have ever
been in a sim or sat in on a check ride with other cultures, but I can assure
you that some of them still believe the 50,000 decibel approach to the debrief,
or even in the sim, is still the way to go. In the example I gave which you thought,
incorrectly, I derived there should be NO critique, the particular culture
involved often used that method.
Another culture close to where the current
ME flare up is occurring was similarly disposed to using not only the same decibel
approach, but having check captains switch off IRU’s and just about every
switch within reach of the jump seat on short finals, in wide bodies, with full
loads of unsuspecting passengers.
Try not to read nonsense into the posts.
But when it comes to mistakes – you can
call them bloopers if you wish, there are better ways of handling them than
reaching for the sledgehammer.
And I can assure you that in the case I
exampled, the supervisors well new of the prickly nature of the individual
involved.
Regards
Dom Crain
VH-CZJ