Originally Posted by
Check Airman
Thanks sonicbum.
I must be missing something though. Why not just use the tools available? The altimeter setting will flash when you get to TA/TL. If the perf page is properly set up, why go through the mental gymnastics that some companies impose? Set your altimeter when passing TA/TL, and if you forget, the system will remind you.
Sounds simple enoug . What am I missing here?
Agree with You. One of our level bust mitigation strategies is for the PM to call “transition altitude” when passing the charted TA and the PF replies SET STANDARD. That proved to be quite helpful in situations where the TA was not properly set in the PERF page and was missed by the crew during the briefing. For descent we directly set the QNH when cleared to an altitude. Anyway I would not be against setting STD in climb directly when cleared to a FL if that was due to be a SOP change as I believe it does make sense to reduce the crew workload.