OK, bringing this back onto track...
I'm pretty sure the door is about to close when the Purser comes into the cockpit and asks "God" if it's OK to close the door
Without wishing to inflame the issue, this is where some of the difficulties are encountered.
Purser/depatcher asks if it's OK to close door, you say yes, purser leaves flight deck and you call for push.
That leaves an awful lot of dead time while you are ready, but the aircraft and ground crew aren't. Purser/despatcher has to walk back maybe 1/3 length of aircraft to close door, attract attention of someone on ground (who's probably sat in the tug chatting with the pushback crew
) to remove the steps, get said steps out the way and then get the pushback crew doing what they do.
So, without trying to tell you how to do it, this is why I suggest a good final check
before calling for push is to check with the headset man that all equipment is out of the way.
