cross bleed starts...
For the life of me, I can't understand why anyone would start one engine and do a x-bleed start out of a taxiway endangering acft behind. Are you letting the accountants run your airplane ? If you have enough support to start ONE engine, why would you not just start them all and be done with it ? There is the rare exception where the start source is a compressed air bottle that can barely get the first engine started. In this case you just have to make do...get away from the ramp area...advise ATC well in advance to clear out all acft behind and get on with the high-power x-bleed start. The x-bleed start procedure in the POM is for the case when there are NO other alternatives. Avoid writing letters that begin: "Dear Chief Pilot: We were having a simply marvelous time, when all of a sudden....".