FIVE GREENS you say you are expected to use exact words for Pushback, Eng failures etc, but you have never found anything written in SOP's??????????? wow..... Well you could try reading VOL 2 Pt 2. Or you could pickup the QRH, in the front of the 777 QRH is a nice little section dealing with "mouth music" Or better still have a look in the "best practices" section of Flight Ops website, there you will find heaps of PPT presentations on anything you need. Even the port pages have info on what to say, to whom and when to say it.
The information is there my friend, you just need to open a book to find it.
It's not rocket science.
Cathay like all other airlines I've been with do expect a certain level of pre-study and knowledge of the books before training.
Whilst there are some checkers in Cathay that "have an excellent grasp of the non-essential" most are really top blokes.
Anyway at the end of the day this is how Cathay do it, full stop end of story, so you either like it or go play with another train set. It's that simple really.
You should have been on the classic or the 1011, they used to argue over a difference of 5 miles for TOD!!!!! Things are a lot lot better now.
cheers
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