Hey 411A, what's up? I seem to agree with all your posts in this thread! (and was stunned you let the FO fly the engine-out-landing)
I used some time to get over my own pride of just having learned how to steer an aircraft, and then handing over control just then when the fun starts i.e. with hydraulic problems or an engine failure.
Then I realised, in some years I will be captain, and I would like to use my experience then to end the flight in the safest possible way, which might be to let the FO fly, but which might very well be to take over for the approach.
My company has as SOP to let the FO fly during an emergency, so the captain has his brain cells free for managing, and afterwards, when everything is setup for the approach, he takes over control to land the airplane. He is required to do that in a "critical flight", which is not further defined. It is left to the crew to make that interpretation.
Therefore the captain-manager in an emergency situation is made SOP, for the rest it seems good CRM to me, if both pilots have 50% hands-on flight time. Maybe the A380 gets an Admiral-position, where the Admiral can dine with the First Class passengers, and every 4 hours inquires about the progress of the flight?
P77