Originally Posted by
wiggy
It seems that In common with many others our Ops manual is very prescriptive in requiring STD to be set on the PFD once cleared above the transition altitude regardless of whether the TA is low or high...(the standby alt is left on local setting until passing the TA).
That sounds like good practice to my (ATC) ears. There is always the possibility that if ATC has climbed you from, say, altitude 2000ft to, say, FL100 that ATC might spot a previously unseen confliction and say “Stop climb at altitude 6,000 ft”.
At least with Standby Alt in local setting you have the correct reference available to either manually stop (if close to the stop altitude) or to “tinker with buttons” if there is time?
Is that too simplistic? (Will have to check on next fam flight!)