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Ok, if I may go back to your earlier post:
The one thing that really bugs me on a CAVOK day, climbing out of a quiet Spanish airfield with an initial climb clearance of FL90 or so, is the Captain hovering his finger over the AP button passing 1000'.
I don't know (or want to know) what you fly, or for whom, but is this "finger hovering" a regular event? I'd agree the idea of someone's finger waving uncommanded at a Boeing MCP A/P button at 1000' sounds darned odd ( and yes, off putting)? If this is a common occurance is it possible your company has an unofficial SOP of automatics in at 1000' and that is that what these Captains are pre-empting/expecting?
I'd offer this as a possible solution, others may have better ideas: Get ahead of the problem and sort this out/put out some feelers at the briefing stage when it is your sector e.g:.
During the departure brief, at some point: "we are doing the XYZ SID, blah, VNAV blah block altitude blah, "Oh and if all is going OK, no non-normals to deal with, you are not overloaded... I plan to hand fly up to around FL XXX"...
Doing that there should be no surprises at 1000', it gives your colleague a chance to voice any objections/observations on the ground and gives you a chance to perhaps gauge the confidence level of your partner in crime.
FWIW I also verbalise in similar fashion as part of my approach briefing...."..... It's a good day, I plan to "hand fly"
it once we've left the hold.".