Pilots making "Inappropriate" Safety Complaints

[Dash Power]

Believe me, B6 isn't the only Company who "trains by memo."

That is the truth.

The problem is when you have been performing the same procedures for twenty + years it so ingrained that when it is mixed up the new procedures feel awkward and it does affect how you feel about your performance.

Our jobs safety is somewhat dependent on rote memorization. And that is some serious cheese movement when they change those same procedures.

At good ol SWA there have been a few major changes since I have been here. Although frustrating to re-adapt I can not say it affected safety.

Interesting Delta did the same thing not long ago but didn't here about any safety concerns. But they did have a somewhat successful seniority integration. I am fully expecting SWA to have another big change when we integrate the Airtran operations.

 

[Captain X]

Just on the CAL side, one checklist has completely been taken away and the other replaced. One of them is not really a safety issue but an embarrassment one if you don't do it. The other has been replaced however but major items (IMHO) have been eliminated and thus has the potential to have catastrophic consequences if certain items left to flow and memory are now forgotten. Couple that with the fact that about 50% of guys forget the new stuff (checklist and callouts) when they are the PM and now it's almost a single-pilot operation.