I think if you read the Airbus SOPs like that then you would not be able to lower the gear for drag if you were hot and high. Because what you’re saying vilas, is that you can only select F3 once the gear is fully down and you can only select gear down once F2 is fully set. So how can you put the gear down if you haven’t got F2 set?
If you say you can select gear down without F2 being fully set then the argument that that’s what the book says is invalid.
It’s semantics to a point but I don’t read the SOPs like that. What do you think?