Originally Posted by PJ2
You mean to say that such a check is actually not SOP
- others have referred to the post by Centaurus which highlights the 'attitude' to 'checks' (aka airmanship) delivered by manufacturers which can rapidly become the 'norm'.
I always made sure the thing was pressurising normally after take-off and it was only post-Helios that I noticed very few F/Os were aware of what the panel should show and were not really checking it. Always better to 'notice' at 3000' than at 10,000'+ - and it is very easy to see there if it is wrong..
At 10, the BA 'SOP' 'check' was 'FEIPL' - fuel, engines, icing, PRESURISATION and inboard lights (Off). Out of interest the first action of most F/Os was lights (which are the least important of the lot! I insisted always that the 'P' came first, as a finite time passes on the first items and often these 'checks' were interrupted by ATC etc and could sail gently towards mask drop in a light jet, when it would be a mad and uncomfortable scramble.to level off.