Originally Posted by
Alpine Flyer
A few questions for all those who routinely use single-engine taxi-out on the A320 series:
1) Do you have company/tailored SOPs for this?
1a) If you use basic Airbus manuals, is there any company guidance on how to apply them, especially regarding task sharing?
2) Is the second engine start done read & do, from memory or something in between/different?
3) Is the pilot taxiing the aircraft involved in the procedure other than ordering the engine start and if so, how?
I would appreciate if you could identify your operator or at least the continent and kind of ops.
Thanks!
(Background: trying to champion it here against unexpectedly fierce opposition.)
Hi,
1) Yes. both SETO and SETI done fully by memory. The only exception is the “after engine 2 start” where the PM reads and does the action (I.e.chrono start, mode sel NORM, Apu bleed off, Apu off) and then we go to the after start checklist.
90+% of our taxi are SETI/SETO, even for just 30 seconds.
European Flag Carrier.