[
QUOTE]Er? "Boeing" plus "Checklist" plus "Changes" equals "Lawyers"[/QUOTE]
Cynical but no doubt true. The proliferation of additional verbal announcements covering company initiated perceived safety/situational awareness, has increased flight deck chatter and therefore work load, out of all proportion to the original design of a two man automated cockpit.
A profusion of altimeter call-outs by both pilots covering climb and descents; FMA changes which both pilots can presumably see with their eyes, are subject to more or less constant verbalisation, hardly a finger crooked without confirming verbalisation - all this is stuff adds up to lawyer defensive measures. In todays flight deck, professional silence is not golden anymore- but, according to the "experts", potentially dangerous...