Mouse, there is a problem for those of us in the industry who teach different SOP's to different airlines. I only have to explain Boeing SOP's once to a student, it takes about 2 minutes, and they never have any questions or confusions. When I have to teach BA SOP's (there are 3 other airlines in UK that use them), it takes at least half an hour with the use of specially designed checklists and I have to go over them several times. There is general confusion between P1 and P2, Captain and First Officer, handling and non-handling, pilot flying and pilot not flying, descent pilot and landing pilot and who the hell is doing what now.
In the final analysis, any SOP that is not universally appreciated and understood, or whose logic is suspect, is probably not a good SOP.
[This message has been edited by Pete Otube (edited 06 June 2001).]