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Old 26th September 2009 | 17:56
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PJ2
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CommandB, (and others);
In the airline i fly for the EVAC drills are completed from memory - each pilot has their own specific drills to accomplish.
Except for Rainboe, no one has addressed the "evacuating into live engines" issue when "each pilot has their own specific drills to accomplish".

How is the evac signal or PA from the left seat coordinated with other crew members to ensure the engines are shut down before the command to evacuate is given?

To ask the question differently, - What item or SOP in your memory items or QRH checklists ensures that the evac command isn't given until the engines have been shut down, (fuel levers/switches off)?

I realize there are lots of scenarios and no evac is the same as any other, but ensuring the engines have been shut down should be a standard item, memorized or not. (That's the problem with a memory checklist - in a hurry and under pressure, you can forget that the/some engines may still be running). A single-point checklist (meaning, read by one crew member, done by the other), prevents all such screwups and doesn't take a lot longer to do.
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