SASless, the way you describe it is how we do it on the NS (I assume the other companies do it that way as well.)
Hummingfrog's description is how it was (and may still be, I don't know) in the military, when you may very well have been single pilot or had a non-pilot such as a Nav in the other seat and therefore had no one to make the decision or hand over control to. That may well have been the case on the NS, but isn't now.
His paras 1, 2, 3 and 5 though are spot on!
Edited to add:
HF, sorry! Your typing skills are quicker than mine!
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