Originally Posted by
sheppey
Why is the term "Speed checked" a company requirement? I would have thought it was normal airmanship to check the airspeed before actuating a flight control lever where applicable
Exactly, another example of the excessive callouts so popular now, it amazes me how much yakking is done with some operators, our SOP was the minimum callouts leaving plenty of ‘blank space’ to say something if it was needed. It’s not necessary to say ‘checked’ after each and every action
An example, we never called out ‘speedbrakes up’ after touchdown, if the automatic function worked normally there is no need
If the PM saw they didn’t deploy they would just say ‘speedbrakes’ and they could be manually deployed