Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
I’m perpetually intrigued by this. I always wonder about the origins of that nonsense. I know that every pilot from a domestic airline whose name starts with R and ends with x does it. Why on Earth do they do it?
I’m a Captain at R something x and I don’t do it, nor does any FO that I have ever flown with. If they did I would be using my best CRM skills to make the point that it’s not correct.