Originally posted by agird
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This is the value of open forums, as a place to learn. Even if it is to learn about the relative misconceptions of others.
As a dispatcher, I should have been fairly low down on the food chain, yet felt confident enough to question a senior Captain on more than one occasion on something that he was theoretically more qualified than myself.
I've occasionally watched the pilot enter data from my loadsheet into the FMS and seen landing weight put in where take off weight should be, or similar. Some pilots are grateful for the support, others are furious of the presumption, even when they know they are wrong.
I have often learnt more about my job and area of expertise from the 'ignorant' questions of my students. And so it is on a forum where someone of no intimate experience of being a pilot may voice an opinion about pilots, and someone with huge experience can quantify that opinion.
Its all good, because a lot of us non-pilots are probably thinking the same about those pilots' performance while a lot of experienced pilots are probably thinking that its not as easy as people think.
There are few jobs where minor, easliy made errors can end in such huge disasters.
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