Nick,
Thank you for putting ito words what most of us experienced pilots are thinking and practising. You must be speaking with some authority since you have had some inputs to the S76 flight manuals. What most of us are really worried are the "people upstairs" sitting in an air conditioned room putting judgements on us should something bad really happens. If in this case, a reject after CDP has been done and there are some damages to the machine, then the book will be thrown at the poor guy who has to take all the blame and probably loses his job! That is why I feel flight manuals should be more concise.