This new procedure is complete overkill, a knee jerk reaction, as usual form our leaders..
On my 4 sectors since this procedure, twice a laptop slipped from our hands while swapping them and slammed on the pedestal. Luckily we didn't break anything, but I'm just waiting for the first one to go through MCDU3... won't take a month!
If the previous procedure was done as written down in the SOP's, it was failproof because of the green dot check. This new procedure just complicates things further and gives us even more things to do in the few precious minutes between when we finally get the ZFW and loadsheet, and when we close the doors. This will for sure lead to other areas of our predeparture checks receiving less attention then before.
Also, what happens when on the taxi and we get a runway change? DO we do the same process, thus set the parking braka and hold up all other traffic for 5 minutes so we can both individually prepare our laptops again?
MR8