Ooops - posted this earlier on wrong thread.
flaps - regarding the power levers, our SOPs have had several different slants and techniques applied to them over the years on the different DHC8 types, but generally it has always been that PF advanced the levers on the roll until the autofeather arms, at which point he calls "Set Power" and PNF advances the levers to the rating detent, with both pilots covering the levers. We did vary things slightly with the 200/300 due to trust issues with the arming of the autofeather system, having to hold it on the brakes until the system armed.
With regard to other aspects of the SOPs, it was a blessing when TC departed because he came from BA and brought Monitored Approaches with him, mandatory on all sectors. It was certainly a useful tool in some weathers, but on
all sectors it was crazy, and on some of our shorter sectors, GLA-BHD, BHD-IOM, JER-GCI, it was just downright messy, and switching control from one pilot to the other on the AP/FD panel was a bit confusing for some. On the day he left we reverted to sensible ops.
remoak - unfortunately our department heads didn't have the balls to say no, and you're right - a complete.....!
spaceman - don't get too excited about the Journey Log, it did used to be a very useful feedback tool, but nowadays when you get back to the crewroom it's all transferred to AIMS and is more or less a tool for gathering statistics as you mention. You can add notes in a separate section, but you'll never get any sort of response or acknowledgement. Oh, and here's another thing, you'll often feel like banging your head against a wall when you compare the handlers' submitted delay code to reality! A delay due to late boarding of the pax or any other handling delay is nearly always attributed to the crew - eating meals, late arrival at aircraft etc, and there's no point in changing it on AIMS because Flybe Ops will have already logged the handlers' delay code which is submitted before you even get airborne.
Have fun with that!
