As a PPL I have a headache from just reading all this.
It seems such an unnecessarily complicated set of procedures to follow in the very infrequent event that you will need to. It seems too complicated for a human brain to follow in a moment of heightened anxiety. Unnecessarily so. A computer could do it, but not a human. Too much room for error when it's not a task that is practiced repeatedly.
Bring back the cables and vacuum gauges, I say!
I'm stuck on the 320 Mr Nooly and the bloody thing has been a constant headache for the past 10 years.
The Frogs can't help themselves complicating simplicity and have never got their act together since day one. For example their non-normal landing performance section has been changed FOUR TIMES during my tenure and gets more ridiculously complex each time.
Also their operating manuals (called FCOMs) were changed and became an even messier dogs dinner than the original ones they replaced. Here's an example - the procedure for refuelling with one engine running. Logic would dictate it would be found in the Supplementary ops section of the FCOM. Wrong! Its in the Aircraft Loading section FFS!
I was waiting for this latest directive to dribble down to the 320 ever since that QF 330 did its dirty dive enroute SIN-PER a few years ago.