Most airlines SOP's REQUIRE the crew to do anything out of the supplementary procedures from the manual, and frown (during checkrides) on it being done purely from memory. So pilots doing COPCO starts, battery starts, bleeds off take off's etc from the book, are doing it right. Touch drill is another thing on the 'supposed to do' list (no excuses for any pilots smearing their greasy fingers all over the DU's though). Try not to let compliance with procedures piss you off. This would be the wrong industry for that.
