Above is the post of someone in a loco airline?? That needs to cover their ass...I am not disagreeing with your approach it still works.
I would do the same.
However, sim and line trainer are not always correct.
Airmanship comes BEFORE SOP. SOP's are not perfect, if they were, all companies would all use the same SOP, we dont.
Airmanship, aviate, navigate.....
then worry about ops