OK guys have read the posts, I am in the belief of keeping to your sops even if it means Sterile Cockpit below FL100 ,which sounds a bit of an overkill unless its the Concorde.
I am Small Turbo Prop Captain in a type that is really a single pilot Airplane. I went from 3500HRS of singlepilot ops to 2 Crew Ops last year as a start off Captain. During my training I made all the mistakes including niceties, of which the Company Check Captain and Authority Testing Officer both said that nicities should remain outside. So I went to work with this in the back of my head. I did fell tense, the first couple of months, but have eased off now. I can asure that most of us, faced with an Emergency the nicities will definitely be naturaly left out of the procedure.
What erks me is the apparent 2 different theories expressed in this thread. Surley CRM in 2002 has eliminated any uncertainty in this area. I know Flight Safety believes in a sterile cockpit analogy, and all nonessential words minimized.
Just my 2 cents worth