bubbers;
"Glideslope obviously was not part of her crosscheck. "
Yep, seen this as well and heard it. I could never understand that it was an "excuse".
The FDs weren't worth paying attention to most times so developing the ability and habit of "looking through the FDs" to the raw data behind occurred naturally. As good as they were, I looked past the Airbus FDs all the time to see what the raw data was doing - if I liked it, I followed them. If the discrepancy was either large or going to stay a while because they were telling us something that I didn't want done with the airplane, I had them turned off. They were helpful during an ILS tho'.