I used to do Cat 3B landings as a skipper on A310s and DC10s in BCAL in the 1980s, having flown the whole leg and the approach as PF. When we obtained our A320s in 1988 with Cat 3B (No DH) capability, we had just been taken over by BA.
This is my take on what the transition to monitored approach was like for us, and what the rest of BA was doing at that time:
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...ml#post8169437
"At the time BA took over BCAL, we were just introducing the A320 into service. We handful of crews - nearly all ex-BCAL for the first year or so - were generally resistant to the imposition of monitored approaches; knowing little about them and mostly not keen to learn. Fortunately, our fleet management was committed to making the A320 fleet the best in BA, and apparently all fleets would have to conform to them as a BA standard. We soon knuckled down, particularly when we moved up to LHR permanently after a summer of LGW ops.
"If the destination wx necessitated an autoland, the captain had to do the leg, but in other respects the leg-for-leg philosophy was retained. It's fairly unusual for two consecutive landings to be affected. Our handover of PF duties to the PNL usually took place not at TOC, but just before the PL (landing pilot) conducted his/her pre-descent briefing. If the PL became visual early on finals, (s)he could take over early - configuration changes and checklist permitting. If the wx was worse than Cat 1, the captain would handle the G/A or autoland, but otherwise role-reversal was complete. It all became second-nature.
"Up at LHR we gradually became aware that not only were the B747 fleets not conforming to the standard, but neither was the recalcitrant B737. I wonder what the situation is today, but any suggestion that the monitored-approach philosophy in BA might allow below-average captains to be propped up by their copilots simply doesn't make sense today."
Seems to me that even if the B787 HUD is on the L/H side only, it would be an excellent tool for the PNF-captain (and in BA it always is the captain below Cat 1) to look for the runway and monitor the instruments at the same time.