Bula
Call it technique or what you like. I just stated airbus brought the change in 2013 and it stays as far as they are concerned. Take it or leave it. About the speed jumping, as I said before, if you activate and then fly select it will not happen. Now about your adage, I will rephrase it " SOP s are for the guidance of the wise and compliance by idiots". sounds very chic and smart. If you go through the accident data base you will realise they are quite a few times famous last words. Only birds fly by instincts Humans have no instincts in the air and you abandon SOPs to your own peril. Some of them are actually written in blood. They are surely revised but not by fits and starts.