eezegeebee, your opinion that BA SOPs are by far the best implies that everyone else's are inferior, a grandiose and somewhat arrogant assumption, in my opinion.
Having used BA SOPs for a few years some time ago, I agree that they are different but I cannot see how anyone would consider that they are better.
They seem to be different only on the basis that conformity is for others.
Boeing/Airbus SOPs have been proved to be quite acceptable and satisfactory for many thousands of operators, apart from BA.
When there is one soldier out of step with everyone else in the squad, it is somewhat arrogant of him to express the opinion that everyone else is out of step apart fror him.
Monitored approaches, the primary difference to 'mainstream' SOPs have their place on our operations but only in marginal weather conditions. To force a hand-over of control from PF to PNF and back again at minimums, when you can see the runway from TOD, is simply pedantry.
In my opinion, of course.
Last edited by rubik101; 20th Aug 2008 at 09:08.