On 4 Jun, 20:27, "noel.wade" wrote:
On Jun 3, 7:18*pm, wrote:

After all, he's going to be the one in trouble if he's wrong. But it

Let's tackle that statement once and for all, shall we?

I know this wasn't Ian's main point in his post - but its important to
mull this over before you think that "its OK becuase I'm the one who
will pay if I screw up". *You can't be that certain.

OK, I will happily amend that to "He's the one person who will
certainly be in trouble if he screws up..."

P.S. *Contrary to popular belief, its possible to be safe AND still
have a ton of fun. *Being safe doesn't mean being nasty or boring - it
just means taking 5 minutes to be responsible!

Of course. That's why I do positive control checks. But one of the
best ways to reduce safety is to make checks and routines /too/
automatic. I think it is much better to have people follow routines
they've thought about than follow a checklist blindly.

I think, for example, of all the pilots trained by BGA instructors in
K21s (or K13s or Bocians or ...) to say
"...strapstightinstrumentsoknoflapsfittedcanopyclo sed..." pre take-off
or
"windslightlycrossfromtherightundercarriagefixeddo wnspeedappropriate ...."
while downwind.

Ian