Originally Posted by Slast
that monitored approach procedures are NOT used by the majority of airlines. That is exactly the situation the PicMA site is intended to change.
Perhaps there is a reason for this. Certainly, when the approach itself was high-workload, it made sense to have the FO concentrating on it while the Captain monitored him/her until a few hundred above then started looking out in anticipation of taking over or ordering the GA.
But now, with the AP doing CDFAs (I am stunned that a first-world operator such as CA apparently has A320s without GPS fitted), IMO there is no longer any need, as Peekay 4 says earlier.