Originally Posted by
Check Airman
Fully agree with your last statement though. At the end of the day, good sense must prevail. If the PM is busy, set the FCU yourself if necessary.
Ueeehhh.... NO.
Most mistakes happen at the end of the day. Skipping items when busy is a perilous path, especially under the conviction that the shortcut is common sense. Indeed many have elected to speed things up by not reading a checklist with predictable results. (link to Spanair in MAD here).
The procedure as described by the OP (identical to my understanding of the FCOM book) is inadequate. Respecting a high level rule that PF instructs, a task sharing model is created which increases workload and is inpractical to use. One that is being avoided by trained crews intending their reasonable best in every day line ops.
Almost a poster child how not to do it from
https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/...AC_120-71B.pdf