Punkalouver :
cconcerning turning the transponder to TA after an engine failure you said...This is new to me, and a bit surprising coming from you
Why are you surprised. This is our SOP and the SOP of many airlines if not most. Perhaps your training department felt it was not necessary to inform you of this.
I doubt this is the SOP of many airlines . Are you going to tell us that if you have an engine failure near Max Alt in dense continental airspace , and have to perform an emergency descent you are going to degrade your TCAS to TA only during he descent ?
Hmmm, I do see that you are from Germany as well.
I am not from Germany, but that does not constitute a burden is it ?
Most contributors here are from Germany perhaps because the critical knowledge is there : Lake Constance and the German BFU are located there and the University of Bielefeld has a chair on automation that is unique ( and they have for instance overturned many stones in the Airbus garden in the past).