Originally Posted by
Old Fella
JD. In all my years operating as a FE I was never conscious of being "monitored" by either pilot when managing the fuel, or the pressurisation, or the hydraulics, or the environmental system etc etc. If I was ever monitored other than in the Sim or on a Line Check it was done without being apparent.
Old Fella, my experience was that it was generally accepted that certain potentially critical configuration changes such as fuel balancing, or Emergency/Abnormal/Alternate items such as (for example) an IDG disconnect, should be done by one and monitored by another - common sense really, I think.
It was the same if one pilot was absent from the flight deck and (say) a North Atlantic ATC clearance came through, the pilot's receipt and readback would be monitored by the F/E. Just professionalism within an integrated crew in my book ...
JD
