Originally posted by elaw
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Gabriel told a story of a crew who was told "line up and wait" and apparently gave the official procedural read back to ATC...and yet they proceeded to take off, so that's where I see the similarity.
...and that it needs to be 'line up and wait because there's a plane crossing downfield' is my point (much like 'here's the runway that's rarely in use, and although it's kind of lame, I just looked and no one is on final approach either')...a little extra thought with regard to situational awareness.
That contrasted with brief 'mindless' code words..."clear-clear"...."line up and wait-line up and wait"...
...and not saying we totally muck up the radio waves with Edith Bunker discussions, but maybe make the cockpit less sterile with some genuine discussion of the situation...
...AND (sorry)...
Fully aware that 99.9999% of the time the crew may indeed say an extra word or two to be situationally aware.
...AND (hopefully the last AND, sorry a second time)...
Fully aware that 0.000[who knows how many more zeros]1% of the time this may not fix a damn thing...
...JUST...
Venting about mindless procedural operation vs. mindful procedural operation and wanting procedure to inspire mindfulness as opposed to being just something you utter...
...and they lived happily ever after.
Thanks.
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