arcniz:
Your footnote-procedure sounds reasonable and proves common sense. That's what I was talking about. (plus or minus a second?)
Agree with you completely:there is no sense in resetting a CB more than once and there are CB's in a modern Airbus or Boing I wouldn't touch without recommended by maintenance.
My remark above was referring to some speculation about AA 587 where the crew called maintenance due to disengaged YD/PT switches. They recycled FAC-CB prior leaving the ramp at JFK. All I meant was: probably nothing unusual, just routine.
BTW a FAC is not a FIC. A FAC is just a flight augmentation computer.