Originally Posted by
It's only Me
Well....
I guess we could have 10 pages of "I leave them on", "I leave them off".
Absolutely right there IOM, so before it gets too heated and repetitive , my feelings are that the one idiot-proof method is to 'headset' the aircraft in and get it chocked with P/B off prior to ANYTHING else happening.
The most likely exception here is if it's blowing a hooley and Capt & Grd. Eng. agree to leave 'em on.
Of course , I understand that in LAS that could be a dilemma in itself , as it could be a case of smokin' brakes , OAT hot as hell and blowing a howler . But for normal circumstances , I stand by my first paragraph.
I do also realise that for some airlines , 'normal circumstances' means that there's not an engineer to be seen unless called for on the VHF.
Re: leaving it for the engineers to decide ? Well , the dreaded, "Brakes Hot/Release PB/Pref Chocks" message normally pings up about 3 minutes after docking and invariably ends up with the poor old Capt hanging out of the DV window trying to get the Eng.s attention.
As for me ? I'm old-school ! My career is going nowhere in the airline..
