The change was done as pilot NOT FLYING was considered to be the wrong way to describe the guy who wasn't actively manipulating the flight path. Pilot Monitoring was considered to be more accurate and reinforced the idea that the pilot not actively manipulating the controls still had an active part in ensuring flight parameters were where they should be. My company simply changed the nomenclature in the books, nothing else changed. More psychological than anything else.
Last edited by Airmann; 11th November 2018 at 01:48.