@vilas Thanks again. You seem to have raised all of the questions with Airbus, that all of us mere mortals have. How you managed, I can only speculate that
vilas is at least the second reincarnation as a TRI/E.
BTW: do you not think it's unfair of AIB not to adjust the FCOM accordingly? I read the explanation with a bit of sadness.
The airline that trained me the best went to great lengths to wipe off the habit of leaving the pumps OFF, citing the no-white-lights rule. Now, 7 years later on the internet I read that it does not apply to Fuel Pumps before refuelling ends? Yuck. And maybe that the AMM even specifies so!
Their logic that SOP are well applied because during CKPT PREP the re-fuelling is finished is utter rubbish. That was NEVER true at any turn-around, since A320 day 1.