JHR,
The point of mentioning about the Airplane Flight Manual was not to cloud the issue of TRs....and their horsepower within the food chain....I mentioned it only to point out that anything in the AFM takes precedence.
Normally, in a
real airline (most
major carriers in the U.S. I categorize as 'real' airlines.), you will have management that takes care of such details...that is, determining and publishing and training to the correct standard. To put it another way, it should not be up to the cockpit crew to research an anomaly, in the cockpit, as it happens. Management should have done their homework before hand....disseminated the information (SOPs)....so that, when things go south, there is not doubt as to the course of action....the checking of this manual, the reference to that manual, etc., has already been done...in somebody's office...before hand.
I have not flown for anyone outside the U.S., but, judging on what I read here in PPrune, I gather that issues like these are the burden of the flight crews, not management as is with U.S. carriers. This is wrong. I can't image the FAA allowing such nonsense.
This is why, when I respond to PPrune queries, I usually ask why the company's training department hasn't been first consulted. The "what if's"
should be worked out and promulgated as SOP.
To put it another way, JHR, it is not your fault that you have this question. Your airline's management are responsible for having already answered such questions....if they're doing their jobs...(not spending their days on the golf course).
