Our SOP is that the PF calls the FMA change, the intention ensures that the PF communicates their actions.
...and when someone engages in the reckless and dangerous practice of disconnection the autopilot (for planes where this is possible - that is) and even the Flight Directors too?
1/8 high on the glide
- checked
lowering nose and reducing thrust
- checked
- nose is confirmed coming down, N1 is confirmed as decreased 3%
Glide coming back, increasing thrust
- checked
.....
Silent cockpit please! Call out anomalies only.
When the PF calls for (commands) "Flaps (x)" it is important that the PNF reads back the command BEFORE making the selection (s)he thinks has been commanded. That's what I mean by a response.
In my company the response to e.g. "flaps XX" is to select flap XX and the call out " " (thank god). We don't have any incidents of flaps being wrongly selected. Both pilots know which gates are being used
pr. SOP. No one moves the flap handle from flaps 1 to 40, because they think that is what they heard. They
know the next step
pr. SOP is flaps 5. If you are hard at hearing, and heard something else, that doesn't correspond with SOP... ask! What has this come to?? Might as well put robots in the cockpit (or monkeys), if people can't think
or communicate.