Whereas my company says consider leaving them off
So (I'm assuming we're in the same company) why the *@** does everyone, and I mean everyone, turn them off with flaps up? Everywhere?
Perhaps because that little word "consider" has been interpreted by the more over-zealous (read fanatical) TCs and Capts to mean "must turn them off"? Then any FOs brave or foolish enough to think for themselves (not many I fear - they're trained as pavlovian robots through no fault of their own) discover that not turning them off usually results in a lecture on this illusiory fuel saving thereby calling
their zealotry into question so it just becomes a de-facto SOP. And as "everyone" does it it becones assumed that it
is SOP...and thus wrong to leave them on. These youngsters have no experience or concept of "industry standard" so cannot know better. And the company can hotly deny this when they point to the word "consider" in the book which shows how easy it is to hide behind words in a book when confronted with a unsatisfactory situation in reality.
Jesus. Whatever happened to Airmans.... Oh Bollox! I nearly said it again!
I'll get my coat.